Book Notes (2005-2023)

February 16, 2023

Emily Hilliard’s Playlist for Her Book “Making Our Future”

February 15, 2023

Jesica Fields’ Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “When a Grasshopper Whispers”

February 14, 2023

Anne K. Yoder’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Enhancers”

February 13, 2023

Curtis White’s Playlist for His Book “Transcendent”

February 10, 2023

Miriam Darlington’s Playlist for Her Book “The Wise Hours”

February 9, 2023

Geoffrey D. Morrison’s Playlist for His Novel “Falling Hour”

February 8, 2023

Stephen Graham Jones’s Playlist for His Novel “Don’t Fear the Reaper”

February 6, 2023

Daniel Torday’s Playlist for His Novel “The 12th Commandment”

February 3, 2023

Stephanie Burt’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “We Are Mermaids”

T Coles’ Playlist for Their Book “Death Metal”

February 2, 2023

David James Keaton’s Playlist for His Novel “Head Cleaner”

February 1, 2023

Annalee Newitz’s Playlist for Their Novel “The Terraformers”

January 31, 2023

Kerri Schlottman’s Playlist for Her Novel “Tell Me One Thing”

January 30, 2023

David Nutt’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Summertime in the Emergency Room”

January 27, 2023

Jonathan Carroll’s Playlist for His Novel “Mr. Breakfast”

January 26, 2023

Kevin Maloney’s Playlist for His Novel “The Red-Headed Pilgrim”

January 25, 2023

Angela Woodward’s Playlist for Her Novel “Ink”

January 24, 2023

Gabrielle Bates’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Judas Goat”

January 19, 2023

Josh Riedel’s Playlist for His Novel “Please Report Your Bug Here”

January 18, 2023

Dawn Raffel’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Boundless as the Sky”

January 17, 2023

Dan Kois’s Playlist for His Novel “Vintage Contemporaries”

January 16, 2023

Maria Dong’s Playlist for Her Novel “Liar, Dreamer, Thief”

January 12, 2023

Chelsea Stickle’s Playlist for Her Chapbook “Everything’s Changing”

January 11, 2023

Jen Michalski’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “The Company of Strangers”

January 10, 2023

Oindrila Mukherjee’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Dream Builders”

January 9, 2023

E.B. Bartels’ Playlist for Her Essay Collection “Good Grief”

January 2, 2023

Jerry McGill’s Playlist for His Novel “The Color of Family”

December 26, 2022

John Jodzio’s Playlist for His Story Collection “This Is The Decade I Kept Getting Stabbed”

December 22, 2022

MB Caschetta’s Playlist for Her Memoir “A Cheerleader’s Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”

December 21, 2022

Terena Elizabeth Bell’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Tell Me What You See”

December 20, 2022

Michael Parker’s Playlist for His Novel “I Am the Light of This World”

December 15, 2022

Jamie Marina Lau’s Playlist for Her Novel “Gunk Baby”

Jeff Chon’s Playlist for His Story Collection “This Is the Afterlife”

December 11, 2022

Jill McDonough’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “American Treasure”

December 8, 2022

Graeme Macrae Burnet’s Playlist for His Novel “Case Study”

Erin Langner’s Playlist for Her Essay Collection “Souvenirs from Paradise”

December 5, 2022

Janice Obuchowski’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “The Woods”

December 2, 2022

Jason McBride’s Playlist for His Book “Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker”

December 1, 2022

Daniel Nester’s Playlist for His Poetry Collection “Harsh Realm”

November 27, 2022

Hugh Sheehy’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Design Flaw”

November 22, 2022

A. J. Bermudez’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Stories No One Hopes Are about Them”

November 21, 2022

Meg Howrey’s Playlist for Her Novel “They’re Going to Love You”

November 17, 2022

Tom Breihan’s Playlist for His Book “The Number Ones”

Will Betke-Brunswick’s Playlist for Their Graphic Memoir “A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings”

November 15, 2022

Sara Moore Wagner’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Swan Wife”

November 14, 2022

Cat Fitzpatrick’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Call-Out”

November 11, 2022

Heidi Sopinka’s Playlist for Her Novel “Utopia”

November 10, 2022

Scott Gould’s Playlist for His Novel “The Hammerhead Chronicles”

November 9, 2022

MariNaomi’s Playlist for Their Graphic Memoir “I Thought You Loved Me”

November 8, 2022

Debra Di Blasi’s Playlist for Her Novel “Birth of Eros”

November 7, 2022

Kate Manning’s Playlist for Her Novel “Gilded Mountain”

November 4, 2022

Anjali Joseph’s Playlist for Her Novel “Keeping in Touch”

November 3, 2022

Stephanie Feldman’s Playlist for Her Novel “Saturnalia”

November 2, 2022

Vanessa A. Bee’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Home Bound”

November 1, 2022

Stephen Policoff’s Playlist for His Novel “Dangerous Blues”

Olesya Salnikova Gilmore’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Witch and the Tsar”

October 31, 2022

Sara Lippmann’s Playlist for Her Novel “Lech”

October 28, 2022

Gary Lippman’s Playlist for His Story Collection “We Loved the World But Could Not Stay”

October 27, 2022

Agustin Maes’s Playlist for His Novel “Newborn”

October 26, 2022

Christopher Locke’s Playlist for His Essay Collection “Without Saints”

October 25, 2022

Stephanie McCarter’s Playlist for Her Translation of Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”

October 24, 2022

Christine Sneed’s Playlist for Her Novel “Please Be Advised”

October 21, 2022

Kid Congo Powers’ Playlist for His Memoir “Some New Kind of Kick”

Cheryl J. Fish’s Playlist for Her Novel “Off The Yoga Mat”

October 20, 2022

Dipika Mukherjee’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Dialect of Distant Harbors”

October 19, 2022

Anna Badkhen’s Playlist for Her Essay Collection “Bright Unbearable Reality”

October 18, 2022

Ethan Chatagnier’s Playlist for His Novel “Singer Distance”

Helen Benedict and Eyad Awwadawnan’s Playlist for Their Book “Map of Hope and Sorrow”

October 17, 2022

Debra Monroe’s Playlist for Her Essay Collection “It Takes a Worried Woman”

K.M. Soehnlein’s Playlist for His Novel “Army of Lovers”

October 14, 2022

Andy Davidson’s Playlist for His Novel “The Hollow Kind”

October 13, 2022

Amina Cain’s Playlist for Her Book “A Horse at Night”

October 12, 2022

James Wade’s Playlist for His Novel “Beasts of the Earth”

October 11, 2022

Jasmine Sawers’ Playlist for Their Collection “The Anchored World”

October 10, 2022

Rijula Das’s Playlist for Her Novel “Small Deaths”

October 6, 2022

Rita Zoey Chin’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern”

October 4, 2022

Prince Shakur’s Playlist for His Memoir “When They Tell You To Be Good”

September 29, 2022

Norman Lock’s Playlist for His Novel “Voices in the Dead House”

September 28, 2022

Mallory Smart’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Only Living Girl in Chicago”

September 23, 2022

Meghan Lamb’s Playlist for Her Novel “Coward”

September 22, 2022

Dmitry Samarov’s Playlist for His Book “Paint By Numbers”

September 20, 2022

Jayme Ringleb’s Playlist for Their Poetry Collection “So Tall It Ends in Heaven”

September 19, 2022

Joe Meno’s Playlist for His Novel “Book of Extraordinary Tragedies”

September 16, 2022

Amy Fusselman’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Mean$”

September 15, 2022

David Ebenbach’s Playlist for His Poetry Collection “What’s Left to Us by Evening”

September 14, 2022

GennaRose Nethercott’s Playlist for Her Novel “Thistlefoot”

September 13, 2022

Michael Pedersen’s Playlist for His Memoir “Boy Friends”

September 12, 2022

Cecil Castellucci’s Playlist for Her Graphic Novel “Shifting Earth”

September 9, 2022

Jill Stukenberg’s Playlist for Her Novel “News of the Air”

September 8, 2022

Hannah Sward’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Strip”

September 7, 2022

Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Are We Ever Our Own”

September 6, 2022

Talia Lakshmi Kolluri’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “What We Fed to the Manticore”

September 2, 2022

Kathleen Rooney’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Where Are the Snows”

August 31, 2022

Hillary Leftwich’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Aura”

August 30, 2022

May-Lee Chai’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Tomorrow in Shanghai”

August 29, 2022

T. J. English’s Playlist for His Book “Dangerous Rhythms”

August 26, 2022

Lauren Acampora’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Hundred Waters”

August 25, 2022

Lynn Sloan’s Playlist for Her Novel “Midstream”

August 24, 2022

Toya Wolfe’s Playlist for Her Novel “Last Summer on State Street”

August 23, 2022

Jesse Leon’s Playlist for His Memoir “I’m Not Broken”

August 22, 2022

David Leo Rice’s Playlist for His Novel “The New House”

August 19, 2022

Michelle Tea’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Knocking Myself Up”

Kathleen Hale’s Playlist for Her Book “Slenderman”

August 18, 2022

Nina Mingya Powles’ Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Magnolia 木蘭”

August 17, 2022

Ray Robertson’s Playlist for His Novel “Estates Large and Small”

August 16, 2022

Coco Picard’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Healing Circle”

August 15, 2022

Rimma Onoseta’s Playlist for Her Novel “How You Grow Wings”

August 12, 2022

Kevin Sampsell’s Playlist for His Book “I Made an Accident”

August 11, 2022

Kate Gavino’s Playlist for Her Graphic Novel “A Career in Books”

August 10, 2022

Emma Seckel’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Wild Hunt”

August 9, 2022

Melody Razak’s Playlist for Her Novel “Moth”

August 8, 2022

Dashiel Carrera’s Playlist for His Novel “The Deer”

August 4, 2022

Jana Casale’s Playlist for Her Novel “How to Fall Out of Love Madly”

August 3, 2022

Giano Cromley’s Playlist for His Novel “The Prince of Infinite Space”

August 2, 2022

Joma West’s Playlist for Her Novel “Face”

August 1, 2022

Noa Menhaim’s Playlist for Her Essay Collection “The Life Fantastic”

July 29, 2022

Katharine A. Burnett & Monica Carol Miller’s Playlist for the book “The Tacky South”

July 28, 2022

Thomas Kendall’s Playlist for His Novel “The Autodidacts”

July 27, 2022

James Greer’s Playlist for His Novel “Bad Eminence”

July 26, 2022

Staci Greason’s Playlist for Her Novel “All the Girls in Town”

July 25, 2022

Robert Vaughan’s Playlist for His Book “ASKEW”

July 22, 2022

Sue Mell’s Playlist for Her Novel “Provenance”

Shane Kowalski’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Small Moods”

July 20, 2022

Meg Tuite’s Playlist for Her Collection “White Van”

July 19, 2022

Sari Botton’s Playlist for Her Memoir “And You May Find Yourself…”

July 18, 2022

Nada Alic’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Bad Thoughts”

July 14, 2022

Monique Roffey’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Mermaid of Black Conch”

July 13, 2022

Natalka Burian’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Night Shift”

Chris Belcher’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Pretty Baby”

July 12, 2022

Jean Thompson’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Poet’s House”

July 11, 2022

Julian Mithra’s Playlist for Their Book “Unearthingly”

July 8, 2022

Conner Habib’s Playlist for His Novel “Hawk Mountain”

July 7, 2022

Sofia Ali-Khan’s Playlist for Her Memoir “A Good Country”

July 6, 2022

Morgan Talty’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Night of the Living Rez”

July 5, 2022

K.B. Jensen’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Love and Other Monsters in the Dark”

July 1, 2022

Chris Cander’s Playlist for Her Novel “A Gracious Neighbor”

Anna Barker’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Rain Hare”

June 30, 2022

Michael Bourne’s Playlist for His Novel “Blithedale Canyon”

June 29, 2022

Renia White’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Casual Conversation”

June 28, 2022

Andrew Liptak’s Playlist for His Book “Cosplay: A History”

June 27, 2022

Katie Marya’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Sugar Work”

June 22, 2022

Daniel Paisner’s Playlist for His Novel “Balloon Dog”

June 20, 2022

Kelly Krumrie’s Playlist for Her Book “Math Class”

June 17, 2022

Alex Poppe’s Playlist for Her Novella “Duende”

June 16, 2022

Lindsay Lerman’s Playlist for Her Novel “What Are You”

Jonathan Papernick’s Playlist for His Novel “I Am My Beloveds”

June 15, 2022

Ada Calhoun’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Also a Poet”

June 14, 2022

Anna Dorn’s Playlist for Her Novel “Exalted”

Eric Orner’s Playlist for His Graphic Biography “Smahtguy”

June 13, 2022

Dan Chaon’s Playlist for His Novel “Sleepwalk”

Salma El-Wardany’s Playlist for Her Novel “These Impossible Things”

June 10, 2022

Rebecca Van Laer’s Playlist for Her Novella “How to Adjust to the Dark”

June 9, 2022

Ru Freeman’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Sleeping Alone”

June 8, 2022

Yuvi Zalkow’s Playlist for His Novel “I Only Cry with Emoticons”

June 7, 2022

Arinze Ifeakandu’s Playlist for His Story Collection “God’s Children Are Little Broken Things”

Jules Ohman’s Playlist for Her Novel “Body Grammar”

Robert McGill’s Playlist for His Novel “A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life”

June 6, 2022

Marie Myung-Ok Lee’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Evening Hero”

June 3, 2022

Caryn Rose’s Playlist for Her Book “Why Patti Smith Matters”

June 2, 2022

Leesa Cross-Smith’s Playlist for Her Novel “Half-Blown Rose”

May 31, 2022

Aaron Foley’s Playlist for His Novel “Boys Come First”

May 24, 2022

Diana Goetsch’s Playlist for Her Memoir “This Body I Wore”

May 23, 2022

Amy Feltman’s Playlist for Her Novel “All the Things We Don’t Talk About”

May 20, 2022

Ravi Mangla’s Playlist for His Novel “The Observant”

David George Haskell’s Playlist for His Book “Sounds Wild and Broken”

May 19, 2022

Umar Turaki’s Playlist for His Novel “Such a Beautiful Thing”

May 18, 2022

Maia Evrigenis’s Playlist for Her Novel “Neon Jane”

May 17, 2022

Benjamin Myers’ Playlist for His Novel “The Perfect Golden Circle”

May 16, 2022

Jeffrey Thomson’s Playlist for His Poetry Collection “Museum of Objects Burned by the Souls in Purgatory”

May 13, 2022

Neema Avashia’s Playlist for Her Essay Collection “Another Appalachia”

May 12, 2022

Mary Allen’s Playlist for Her Memoir “The Deep Limitless Air”

Laura Kolbe’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Little Pharma”

May 11, 2022

Ashleigh Bell Pedersen’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Crocodile Bride”

May 10, 2022

Brad Listi’s Playlist for His Novel “Be Brief and Tell Them Everything”

M J Nicholls’s Playlist for His Novel “Condemned to Cymru”

May 9, 2022

Bill Roorbach’s Playlist for His Novel “Lucky Turtle”

May 6, 2022

Francesca Giacco’s Playlist for Her Novel “Six Days in Rome”

Caitlin Scarano’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “The Necessity of Wildfire”

May 5, 2022

Michelle Hart’s Playlist for Her Novel “We Do What We Do in the Dark”

May 4, 2022

Fernando A. Flores’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Valleyesque”

May 3, 2022

Courtney Maum’s Playlist for Her Memoir “The Year of the Horses”

May 2, 2022

Sara Baume’s Playlist for Her Novel “Seven Steeples”

April 29, 2022

Donald Edem Quist’s Playlist for His Essay Collection “To Those Bounded”

April 28, 2022

Tyler McMahon’s Playlist for His Novel “One Potato”

April 27, 2022

Christopher Evans’ Playlist for His Story Collection “Nothing Could Be Further From the Truth”

April 26, 2022

Alma Katsu’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Fervor”

April 25, 2022

Joe Mungo Reed’s Playlist for His Novel “Hammer”

Aaron Angello’s Playlist for His Book “The Fact of Memory”

April 22, 2022

Kathe Koja’s Playlist for Her Novel “Dark Factory”

April 21, 2022

Caitlin Barasch’s Playlist for Her Novel “A Novel Obsession”

April 20, 2022

Ben Shattuck’s Playlist for His Book “Six Walks”

April 19, 2022

Adrienne Celt’s Playlist for Her Novel “End of the World House”

April 18, 2022

Maud Casey’s Playlist for Her Novel “City of Incurable Women”

April 15, 2022

Jim Ruland’s Playlist for His Book “Corporate Rock Sucks”

April 14, 2022

Hillary Jordan’s & Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan’s Playlist for Their Anthology “Anonymous Sex”

April 13, 2022

David Keenan’s Playlist for His Novel “Xstabeth”

April 11, 2022

Erika Krouse’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Tell Me Everything”

April 8, 2022

Madhushree Ghosh’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Khabaar”

April 7, 2022

Jeff Deutsch’s Playlist for His Book “In Praise of Good Bookstores”

April 6, 2022

Caleb Tankersley’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Sin Eaters”

Grant Ginder’s Playlist for His Novel “Let’s Not Do That Again”

April 5, 2022

Candice Wuehle’s Playlist for Her Novel “Monarch”

Rebecca Scherm’s Playlist for Her Novel “A House Between Earth and the Moon”

April 4, 2022

Jean Chen Ho’s Playlist for Her Novel “Fiona and Jane”

Ian MacAllen’s Playlist for His Book “Red Sauce”

April 1, 2022

Mary Kuryla’s Playlist for Her Novel “Away to Stay”

March 31, 2022

Elaine Hsieh Chou’s Playlist for Her Novel “Disorientation”

Andrew DeYoung’s Playlist for His Novel “The Temps”

March 30, 2022

Matti Friedman’s Playlist for His Book “Who By Fire”

Maud Newton’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Ancestor Trouble”

March 28, 2022

Erica Plouffe Lazure’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Proof of Me”

March 25, 2022

Olivia Clare Friedman’s Playlist for Her Novel “Here Lies”

March 24, 2022

Alejandro Varela’s Playlist for His Novel “The Town of Babylon”

Kelsey Ronan’s Playlist for Her Novel “Chevy in the Hole”

March 22, 2022

Colleen Kinder’s Playlist for Her Anthology “Letter to a Stranger”

March 21, 2022

Véronique Hyland’s Playlist for Her Essay Collection “Dress Code”

March 17, 2022

Eugen Bacon’s Playlist for Her Novel “Mage of Fools”

March 16, 2022

Alex Segura’s Playlist for His Novel “Secret Identity”

March 14, 2022

Joel Agee’s Playlist for His Novel “The Stone World”

March 10, 2022

darlene anita scott’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Marrow”

March 9, 2022

Matthew Clark Davison’s Playlist for His Novel “Doubting Thomas”

March 3, 2022

David Wright Faladé’s Playlist for His Novel “Black Cloud Rising”

March 2, 2022

Jane Pek’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Verifiers”

March 1, 2022

Sarah Krasnostein’s Playlist for Her Book “The Believer”

February 28, 2022

Manini Nayar’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Being Here”

February 24, 2022

Rob Hart’s Playlist for His Novel “The Paradox Hotel”

February 23, 2022

Richard Thomas’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Spontaneous Human Combustion”

February 21, 2022

Caitlin Hamilton Summie’s Playlist for Her Novel “Geographies of the Heart”

February 18, 2022

Jared Joseph’s Playlist for His Poetry Collection “A Book About Myself Called Hell”

February 17, 2022

Sara Goudarzi’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Almond in the Apricot”

February 16, 2022

Kim Burwick’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Out Beyond the Land”

February 11, 2022

Kaya Oakes’s Playlist for Her Book “The Defiant Middle”

February 10, 2022

Sarah Blake’s Playlist for Her Novel “Clean Air”

February 8, 2022

Sara Gran’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Book of the Most Precious Substance”

February 6, 2022

J.T. Bushnell’s Playlist for His Novel “The Step Back”

February 4, 2022

Swan Huntley’s Playlist for Her Novel “Getting Clean With Stevie Green”

February 3, 2022

Joshua Kornreich’s Playlist for His Novel “Cavanaugh”

Jen Winston’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Greedy”

January 31, 2022

Peter Mann’s Playlist for His Novel “The Torqued Man”

January 28, 2022

Dani Putney’s Playlist for Their Poetry Collection “Salamat sa Intersectionality”

January 27, 2022

Michelle Ross’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Shapeshifting”

January 21, 2022

Andrew Lipstein’s Playlist for His Novel “Last Resort”

January 20, 2022

Manon Steffan Ros’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Blue Book of Nebo”

January 18, 2022

Sequoia Nagamatsu’s Playlist for His Novel “How High We Go in the Dark”

January 12, 2022

Hasanthika Sirisena’s Playlist for Her Essay Collection “Dark Tourist”

January 11, 2022

Antoine Wilson’s Playlist for His Novel “Mouth to Mouth”

January 10, 2022

Thrity Umrigar’s Playlist for Her Novel “Honor”

Kirthana Ramisetti’s Playlist for Her Novel “Dava Shastri’s Last Day”

Erika Schickel’s Playlist for Her Memoir “The Big Hurt”

December 16, 2021

Juhea Kim’s Playlist for Her Novel “Beasts of a Little Land”

Cameron MacKenzie’s Playlist for His Story Collection “River Weather”

November 23, 2021

Nick Mamatas’s Playlist for His Novel “The Second Shooter”

November 22, 2021

Mahyar Amouzegar’s Playlist for His Story Collection “The Hubris of an Empty Hand”

November 19, 2021

Mike Errico’s Playlist for His Book “Music, Lyrics, and Life”

November 18, 2021

Jen Fawkes’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Tales the Devil Told Me”

Amy Leach’s Playlist for Her Essay Collection “The Everybody Ensemble”

Jenny Shank’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Mixed Company”

November 15, 2021

Bobbie Ann Mason’s Playlist for Her Novel “Dear Ann”

November 11, 2021

Kyle Lucia Wu’s Playlist for Her Novel “Win Me Something”

Lance Olsen’s Playlist for His Novel “Skin Elegies”

November 8, 2021

Henry Adam Svec’s Playlist for His Novel “Life Is Like Canadian Football and Other Authentic Folk Songs”

November 5, 2021

Okezie Nwoka’s Playlist for Their Novel “God of Mercy”

November 4, 2021

Stephanie Gangi’s Playlist for Her Novel “Carry the Dog”

Robin McLean’s Playlist for Her Novel “Pity the Beast”

Peter Ho Davies’ Playlist for His Book “The Art of Revision”

October 27, 2021

Frances Badalamenti’s Playlist for Her Novel “Salad Days”

October 25, 2021

Avni Vyas’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Little God”

Joan Schweighardt’s Playlist for Her Novels “The Rivers Trilogy”

October 22, 2021

Lara Stapleton’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “The Ruin of Everything”

Sarah Kornfeld’s Playlist for Her Book “The True”

Mike DeCapite’s Playlist for His Novel “Jacket Weather”

October 21, 2021

Quincy Scott Jones’s Playlist for His Poetry Collection “How to Kill Yourself Instead of Your Children”

October 20, 2021

Gregory Galloway’s Playlist for His Novel “Just Thieves”

October 19, 2021

Blake Sanz’s Playlist for His Story Collection “The Boundaries of Their Dwelling”

October 18, 2021

Colleen van Niekerk’s Playlist for Her Novel “A Conspiracy of Mothers”

October 14, 2021

Amy Lee Lillard’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Dig Me Out”

October 13, 2021

Bethany Ball’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Pessimists”

October 11, 2021

Myriam J. A. Chancy’s Playlist for Her Novel “What Storm, What Thunder”

October 7, 2021

Mary Elizabeth Pope’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Gods of Green County”

October 6, 2021

Alix E. Harrow’s Playlist for Her Novel “A Spindle Splintered”

October 5, 2021

Beth Gilstrap’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Deadheading”

October 4, 2021

Hilma Wolitzer’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket”

September 30, 2021

Bradley Sides’ Playlist for His Story Collection “Those Fantastic Lives”

September 29, 2021

Craig Nova’s Playlist for His Novel “Double Solitaire”

September 27, 2021

Ryka Aoki’s Playlist for Her Novel “Light From Uncommon Stars”

September 24, 2021

LaTanya McQueen’s Playlist for Her Novel “When the Reckoning Comes”

September 23, 2021

Heidi Seaborn’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe”

September 22, 2021

Casey Plett’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “A Dream of a Woman”

Vince Passaro’s Playlist for His Novel “Crazy Sorrow”

M Shelly Conner’s Playlist for Her Novel “everyman”

September 21, 2021

Lincoln Michel’s Playlist for His Novel “The Body Scout”

September 20, 2021

Kavita Bedford’s Playlist for Her Novel “Friends and Dark Shapes”

September 17, 2021

Andrei S. Markovits’s Playlist for His Memoir “The Passport as Home”

September 15, 2021

Monica Byrne’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Actual Star”

September 14, 2021

Zoe Whittall’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Spectacular”

September 13, 2021

K.E. Flann’s Playlist for Her Book “How to Survive a Human Attack”

September 10, 2021

Atticus Lish’s Playlist for His Novel “The War for Gloria”

September 9, 2021

James Tate Hill’s Playlist for His Memoir “Blind Man’s Bluff”

September 8, 2021

Shara McCallum’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “No Ruined Stone”

September 7, 2021

Anne Liu Kellor’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Heart Radical”

September 3, 2021

Crystal Wilkinson’s Playlist for Her Collection “Perfect Black”

September 1, 2021

Robert Repino’s Playlist for His Novel “Malefactor”

Merve Emre’s Playlist for “The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway”

August 31, 2021

J.S. Breukelaar’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Bridge”

August 27, 2021

Johnny Shaw’s Playlist for His Novel “The Southland”

August 26, 2021

Kyle Beachy’s Playlist for His Memoir “The Most Fun Thing”

August 25, 2021

Seb Doubinsky’s Playlist for His Novel “Paperclip”

August 24, 2021

Jo Lloyd’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Something Wonderful”

August 23, 2021

Willa C Richards’ Playlist for Her Novel “The Comfort of Monsters”

J. Ashley-Smith’s Playlist for His Novel “Ariadne, I Love You”

August 20, 2021

Ellen Airgood’s Playlist for Her Novel “Tin Camp Road”

August 17, 2021

Jonathan Wells’ Playlist for His Memoir “The Skinny”

August 16, 2021

Ashley Nelson Levy’s Playlist for Her Novel “Immediate Family”

August 13, 2021

Mona Awad’s Playlist for Her Novel “All’s Well”

Mike Edison’s Playlist for His Book “Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters”

August 12, 2021

Alexandra Kleeman’s Playlist for Her Novel “Something New Under the Sun”

August 11, 2021

Rémy Ngamije’s Playlist for His Novel “The Eternal Audience of One by Rémy Ngamije”

August 10, 2021

Deborah Copaken’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Ladyparts”

August 4, 2021

Jamika Ajalon’s Playlist for Her Novel “Skye Papers”

Cristina Sandu’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Union of Synchronized Swimmers”

August 3, 2021

David Hoon Kim’s Playlist for His Novel “Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost”

July 28, 2021

Nick McDonell’s Playlist for His Novel “The Council of Animals”

July 27, 2021

John Brandon’s Playlist for His Novel “Ivory Shoals”

July 21, 2021

Maureen N. McLane’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “More Anon”

July 20, 2021

Chris McKinney’s Playlist for His Novel “Midnight, Water City”

July 19, 2021

Gabriel Krauze’s Playlist for His Novel “Who They Was”

July 16, 2021

Swapna Krishna’s and Jenn Northington’s Playlists for Their Anthology “Sword Stone Table”

July 14, 2021

Katie Crouch’s Playlist for Her Novel “Embassy Wife”

July 13, 2021

Matt Bell’s Playlist for His Novel “Appleseed”

July 12, 2021

Courtney Cook’s Playlist for Her Illustrated Memoir “The Way She Feels”

Michelle Richmond’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Wonder Test”

July 9, 2021

Luke Turner’s Playlist for His Memoir “Out of the Woods”

July 8, 2021

Elizabeth Gonzalez James’ Playlist for Her Novel “Mona At Sea”

July 6, 2021

J. Bradley’s Playlist for His Novel “Teenage Wasteland”

July 5, 2021

S. Kirk Walsh’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Elephant of Belfast”

June 23, 2021

Brian Catling’s Playlist for His Novel “Hollow”

Quntos KunQuest’s Playlist for His Novel “This Life”

June 21, 2021

David Leo Rice’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Drifter”

Mik Grantham’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Hardcore”

June 17, 2021

Brian Hall’s Playlist for His Novel “The Stone Loves the World”

Cassandra Lane’s Playlist for Her Memoir “We Are Bridges”

June 16, 2021

Chris Offutt’s Playlist for His Novel “The Killing Hills”

Brittany Ackerman’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Brittanys”

June 14, 2021

Chaney Kwak’s Playlist for His Memoir “The Passenger”

June 10, 2021

Alex DiFrancesco’s Playlist for Their Story Collection “Transmutation”

June 9, 2021

Andy Abramowitz’s Playlist for His Novel “Darling at the Campsite”

June 7, 2021

Mary Camarillo’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Lockhart Women”

June 4, 2021

A. Natasha Joukovsky’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Portrait of a Mirror”

June 3, 2021

Miranda Mellis’s and Katie Aymar’s Playlists for the Poetry Collection “Demystifications”

Yelena Moskovich’s Playlist for Her Novel “A Door Behind A Door”

June 2, 2021

Maegan Poland’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “What Makes You Think You’re Awake?”

June 1, 2021

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Lee Zacharias’s Playlist for Her Novel “What a Wonderful World This Could Be”

May 27, 2021

Sesshu Foster & Arturo Romo’s Playlist for Their Novel “ELADATL”

May 26, 2021

Tony Trigilio’s Playlist for His Poetry Collection “Proof Something Happened”

May 25, 2021

David Ebenbach’s Playlist for His Novel “How to Mars”

May 24, 2021

Dmitry Samarov’s Playlist for His Novel “Old Style”

May 20, 2021

Selina Mahmood’s Playlist for Her Essay Collection “A Pandemic in Residence”

May 18, 2021

Brian Broome’s Playlist for His Memoir “Punch Me Up to the Gods”

May 17, 2021

Aidan Truhen’s Playlist for His Novel “Seven Demons”

A. J. Gnuse’s Playlist for His Novel “Girl in the Walls”

May 13, 2021

Marisa Silver’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Mysteries”

May 12, 2021

Jessica Anya Blau’s Playlist for Her Novel “Mary Jane”

May 10, 2021

Jeff Chon’s Playlist for His Novel “Hashtag Good Guy With a Gun”

May 6, 2021

Michael Lowenthal’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Sex with Strangers”

Anna Dorn’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Bad Lawyer”

May 5, 2021

Heather Frese’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Baddest Girl on the Planet”

Celeste Mohammed’s Playlist for Her Novel “Pleasantview”

May 4, 2021

J. Nicole Jones’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Low Country”

Gian Sardar’s Playlist for Her Novel “Take What You Can Carry”

May 3, 2021

Joshua Mohr’s Playlist for His Memoir”Model Citizen”

David Stuart MacLean’s Playlist for His Novel “How I Learned to Hate in Ohio”

April 29, 2021

Willy Vlautin’s Playlist for His Novel “The Night Always Comes”

Hari Ziyad’s Playlist for Their Memoir “Black Boy Out of Time”

April 28, 2021

Henry Hoke’s Playlist for His Novel “The Groundhog Forever”

Rachel Michelberg’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Crash”

Patrick Allington’s Playlist for His Novel “Rise & Shine”

April 27, 2021

Elissa Washuta’s Playlist for Her Essay Collection “White Magic”

April 26, 2021

J. Robert Lennon’s Playlist for His Books “Subdivision” and “Let Me Think”

Miranda Popkey’s Playlist for Her Novel “Topics of Conversation”

April 22, 2021

Deborah K. Shepherd’s Playlist for Her Novel “So Happy Together”

Amanda Dennis’s Playlist for Her Novel “Her Here”

Thomas Calder’s Playlist for His Novel “The Wind Under the Door”

April 21, 2021

Gina Nutt’s Playlist for Her Essay Collection “Night Rooms”

Thomas Dyja’s Playlist for His Book “New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation”

Ellen Hagan’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Blooming Fiascoes”

April 20, 2021

Zhanna Slor’s Playlist for Her Novel “At the End of the World, Turn Left”

April 19, 2021

Michele Morano’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Like Love”

KT Sparks’s Playlist for Her Novel “Four Dead Horses”

April 16, 2021

Julia Cooke’s Playlist for Her Book “Come Fly the World”

Brittney Morris’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Cost of Knowing”

April 15, 2021

Vincent James’ Playlist for the Collaborative Novel “Swerve”

A.E. Osworth’s Playlist for Their Novel “We Are Watching Eliza Bright”

April 14, 2021

Anna North’s Playlist for Her Novel “Outlawed”

Jim Lewis’s Playlist for His Novel “Ghosts of New York”

Rick Bass’s Playlist for His Essay Collection “Fortunate Son”

April 13, 2021

Paul Griner’s Playlist for His Novel “The Book of Otto and Liam”

April 12, 2021

Sara Davis’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Scapegoat”

Avner Landes’ Playlist for His Novel “Meiselman: The Lean Years”

April 9, 2021

Melissa Febos’s Playlist for Her Essay Collection “Girlhood”

Brian Phillip Whalen’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Semiotic Love [Stories]”

April 8, 2021

Terri Simone Francis’s Playlist for Her Book “Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism”

April 7, 2021

Scott Gould’s Playlist for His Memoir “Things That Crash, Things That Fly”

April 5, 2021

David Winner’s Playlist for His Novel “Enemy Combatant”

April 1, 2021

Laura Lindstedt’s Playlist for Her Novel “My Friend Natalia”

March 31, 2021

Layla AlAmmar’s Playlist for Her Novel “Silence Is a Sense”

Aaron Poochigian’s Playlist for His Translation of “Aristophanes: Four Plays”

March 29, 2021

Sergi Pàmies’ Playlist for His Story Collection “The Art of Wearing a Trench Coat”

March 25, 2021

Hannah Kirshner’s Playlist for Her Book “Water, Wood, and Wild Things”

Bess Winter’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Machines of Another Era”

March 24, 2021

Laura Cronk’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Ghost Hour”

March 23, 2021

Elizabeth Brooks’ Playlist for Her Novel “The Whispering House”

March 22, 2021

Brock Clarke’s Playlist for His Essay Collection “I, Grape”

March 19, 2021

Mateo Askaripour’s Playlist for His Novel “Black Buck”

March 17, 2021

Kim Addonizio’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Now We’re Getting Somewhere”

March 16, 2021

Will Johnson’s Playlist for His Novel “If or When I Call”

March 15, 2021

Milda M. Devoe’s Playlist for Her Book “Book & Baby”

March 11, 2021

Hala Alyan’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Arsonists’ City”

Eman Quotah’s Playlist for Her Novel “Bride of the Sea”

Keith Rosson’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons”

March 10, 2021

Mitchell James Kaplan’s Playlist for His Novel “Rhapsody”

March 9, 2021

Forsyth Harmon’s Playlist for Their Novel “Justine”

March 8, 2021

Marcia Butler’s Playlist for Her Novel “Oslo, Maine”

March 4, 2021

Julia von Lucadou’s Playlist for Her Novel “The High-Rise Diver”

Elisabeth Sheffield’s Playlist for Her Novel “Ire Land”

March 3, 2021

Patricia Engel’s Playlist for Her Novel “Infinite Country”

March 2, 2021

Alexander Wolff’s Playlist for His Book “Endpapers”

March 1, 2021

Darrin Doyle’s Playlist for His Story Collection “The Big Baby Crime Spree and Other Delusions”

February 26, 2021

Robert Jones Jr.’s Playlist for His Novel “The Prophets”

February 25, 2021

Ellie Eaton’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Divines”

February 24, 2021

Julia Fine’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Upstairs House”

February 23, 2021

Matthew Gavin Frank’s Playlist for His Book “Flight of the Diamond Smugglers”

Tracy Clark-Flory’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Want Me”

February 22, 2021

Rebecca Morgan Frank’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Oh You Robot Saints!”

Elizabeth Knox’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Absolute Book”

February 18, 2021

Kathryn Nuernberger’s Playlist for Her Essay Collection “The Witch of Eye”

February 17, 2021

Patricia Ann McNair’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Responsible Adults”

February 16, 2021

Zak Salih’s Playlist for His Novel “Let’s Get Back to the Party”

February 15, 2021

Harold Jaffe’s Playlist for His Book “Brut”

February 12, 2021

Alison Wisdom’s Playlist for Her Novel “We Can Only Save Ourselves”

Alison Wisdom’s Playlist for Her Novel “We Can Only Save Ourselves”

Robbie Arnott’s Playlist for His Novel “The Rain Heron”

Mike Fiorito’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Falling from Trees”

Jen Silverman’s Playlist for Her Novel “We Play Ourselves”

February 9, 2021

Madeleine Watts’ Playlist for Her Novel “The Inland Sea”

February 8, 2021

Dantiel W. Moniz’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Milk Blood Heat”

February 4, 2021

Maria E. Andreu’s Playlist for Her Novel “Love in English”

February 3, 2021

Leesa Cross-Smith’s Playlist for Her Novel “This Close to Okay”

Sylvie Baumgartel ‘s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Pink”

February 2, 2021

Andromeda Romano-Lax’s Playlist for Her Novel “Annie and the Wolves”

February 1, 2021

Te-Ping Chen’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Land of Big Numbers”

Te-Ping Chen’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Land of Big Numbers”

January 27, 2021

Tatiana Ryckman’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Ancestry of Objects”

January 26, 2021

David Leo Rice’s Playlist for His Novel “A Room in Dodge City 2”

January 25, 2021

Andrew Wedderburn’s Playlist for His Novel “The Crash Palace”

January 21, 2021

Jon Sealy’s Playlist for His Novel “The Merciful”

January 19, 2021

Eugen Bacon & Dominique Hecq’s Playlist for Their Collection “Speculate”

January 12, 2021

Olga Grushin’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Charmed Wife”

Jerome Charyn’s Playlist for His Novel “Sergeant Salinger”

January 5, 2021

Mairead Case’s Playlist for Her Novel “Tiny”

December 11, 2020

Kasey Thornton’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Lord The One You Love is Sick”

December 10, 2020

Kelly Conaboy’s Playlist for Her Memoir “The Particulars of Peter”

December 8, 2020

Gabriel Blackwell’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Babel”

December 1, 2020

Eugen Bacon’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “The Road to Woop Woop”

November 24, 2020

Jen Fawkes’ Playlist for Her Story Collection “Mannequin and Wife”

November 18, 2020

Contributors’ and Editors’ Playlist for the Anthology “The Best of Brevity”

Jordan A. Rothacker’s Playlist for His Novel “The Death of the Cyborg Oracle”

November 16, 2020

Daudi Abe’s Playlist for His Book “Emerald Street”

November 10, 2020

Dege Legg’s Playlist for His Memoir “Cablog”

November 6, 2020

Fred Misurella’s Playlist for His Novel “A Pontiac in the Woods”

October 30, 2020

Ben Tanzer’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Upstate”

Michael P. Daley’s Playlist for the Anthology “Echoes of a Natural World”

October 29, 2020

Christina Hammonds Reed’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Black Kids”

October 28, 2020

Ed Lin’s Playlist for His Novel “David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College”

October 26, 2020

Tobias Carroll’s Playlist for His Book “Political Sign”

October 23, 2020

Steve Haruch’s Playlist for His Book “Greetings from New Nashville”

October 22, 2020

Chris Stedman’s Playlist for His Book “IRL”

October 21, 2020

Scott Gould’s Playlist for His Novel “Whereabouts”

October 20, 2020

Liz Crain’s Playlist for Her Cookbook “Dumplings Equal Love”

October 19, 2020

David Menconi’s Playlist for His Book “Step It Up and Go”

October 16, 2020

Keith Kopka’s Playlist for His Poetry Collection “Count Four”

October 15, 2020

Charles Holdefer’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Agitprop for Bedtime”

October 14, 2020

Destiny O. Birdsong’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Negotiations City”

October 13, 2020

Corey Sobel’s Playlist for His Novel “The Redshirt”

October 12, 2020

Sarah McCraw Crow’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Wrong Kind of Woman”

October 9, 2020

Christiane Vadnais’s Playlist for Her Novel “Fauna”

October 8, 2020

Eleanor Boudreau’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Earnest, Earnest?”

October 7, 2020

Karin Cecile Davidson’s Playlist for Her Novel “Sybelia Drive”

October 6, 2020

Lucile Scott’s Playlist for Her Book “An American Covenant”

October 5, 2020

Dylan Jones’s Playlist for His Book “Sweet Dreams”

October 2, 2020

JD Scott’s Playlist for Their Story Collection “Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day”

October 1, 2020

Rachel Swearingen’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “How to Walk on Water”

September 30, 2020

Deesha Philyaw’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies”

Emily Gray Tedrowe’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Talented Miss Farwell”

September 29, 2020

Amy Shearn’s Playlist for Her Novel “Unseen City”

September 25, 2020

Andriana Minou’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “The Fabulous Dead”

September 24, 2020

Jenny Bhatt’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Each of Us Killers”

September 23, 2020

David Hajdu’s Playlist for His Novel “Adrianne Geffel”

September 22, 2020

Debora Harding’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Dancing With the Octopus”

September 21, 2020

Diane Zinna’s Playlist for Her Novel “The All-Night Sun”

September 18, 2020

Zoe Hitzig’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Mezzanine”

September 17, 2020

Ian Stansel’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Glossary for the End of Days”

September 16, 2020

Daniel Hornsby’s Playlist for His Novel “Via Negativa”

September 15, 2020

Alex Ross’s Playlist for His Book “Wagnerism”

Andrew Ervin’s Playlist for His RPG Module “Lost Tomb of the Bitchin’ Chimera”

September 14, 2020

Kathe Koja’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Cipher”

September 11, 2020

Natalie Bakopoulos’s Playlist for Her Novel “Scorpionfish”

September 10, 2020

Ray Padgett’s Playlist for His Book “I’m Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen”

September 9, 2020

Bett Williams’ Playlist for Her Memoir “The Wild Kindness”

September 8, 2020

K-Ming Chang’s Playlist for Her Novel “Bestiary”

September 4, 2020

M. C. Armstrong’s Playlist for His Memoir “The Mysteries of Haditha”

September 3, 2020

Peace Adzo Medie’s Playlist for Her Novel “His Only Wife”

September 2, 2020

John McNally’s Playlist for His Story Collection “The Fear of Everything”

Bill Flanagan’s Playlist for His Novel “Fifty in Reverse”

Gwen Goodkin’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “A Place Remote”

August 31, 2020

David James Poissant’s Playlist for His Novel “Lake Life”

August 28, 2020

Vanessa Veselka’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Great Offshore Grounds”

Dmitry Samarov’s Playlist for His Essay Collection “All Hack”

August 27, 2020

Dmitry Samarov’s Playlist for His Essay Collection “Soviet Stamps”

August 26, 2020

David Heska Wanbli Weiden’s Playlist for His Novel “Winter Counts”

August 25, 2020

Greg Mania’s Playlist for His Memoir “Born to Be Public”

Sebastian Matthews’ Playlist for His Memoir “Beyond Repair”

August 24, 2020

Kendra Atleework’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Miracle Country”

Michael Lee Nirenberg’s Playlist for His Book “Earth A.D.”

August 21, 2020

Helen Cullen’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Dazzling Truth”

Nate Marshall’s Playlist for His Poetry Collection “Finna”

August 20, 2020

Claire Phillips’ Playlist for Her Memoir “A Room with a Darker View”

Jennie Fields’ Playlist for Her Novel “Atomic Love”

August 19, 2020

Jessica Gross’s Playlist for Her Novel “Hysteria”

Frances Macken’s Playlist for Her Novel “You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here”

August 18, 2020

Darin Strauss’s Playlist for His Novel “The Queen of Tuesday”

Heidi Pitlor’s Playlist for Her Novel “Impersonation”

August 17, 2020

Iris Martin Cohen’s Playlist for Her Novel “Last Call on Decatur Street”

Kelly Daniels’ Playlist for His Novel “A Candle for San Simón”

August 13, 2020

Cree LeFavour’s Playlist for Her Novel “Private Means”

Lisa Selin Davis’s Playlist for Her Book “Tomboy”

August 12, 2020

Emma Donoghue’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Pull of the Stars”

Kathleen Rooney’s Playlist for Her Novel “Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey”

August 11, 2020

Rebecca Watson’s Playlist for Her Novel “little scratch”

Matthew Salesses’s Playlist for His Novel “Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear”

August 10, 2020

Joni Murphy’s Playlist for Her Novel “Talking Animals”

Madeleine Barnes’ Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “You Do Not Have To Be Good”

Tommy Butler’s Playlist for His Novel “Before You Go”

August 7, 2020

Maike Wetzel’s Playlist for Her Novel “Elly”

Kim Powers’ Playlist for His Novel “Rules for Being Dead”

August 6, 2020

Erin Morgenstern’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Starless Sea”

Odie Lindsey’s Playlist for His Novel “Some Go Home”

Bob Blaisdell’s Playlist for His Book “Creating Anna Karenina”

August 5, 2020

Arthur Nersesian’s Playlist for His Novel “The Five Books of (Robert) Moses”

Melissa Faliveno’s Playlist for Her Essay Collection “Tomboyland”

Nelson George’s Playlist for His Novel “The Darkest Hearts”

August 4, 2020

Jill McCorkle’s Playlist for Her Novel “Hieroglyphics”

Caroline Leavitt’s Playlist for Her Novel “With or Without You”

francine j. harris’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Here is the Sweet Hand”

August 3, 2020

Carlos Fonseca’s Playlist for His Novel “Natural History”

Curtis Smith’s Playlist for His Novel “The Magpie’s Return”

August 2, 2020

Noah Falck’s Playlist for His Poetry Collection “Exclusions”

July 28, 2020

Caoilinn Hughes’ Playlist for Her Novel “The Wild Laughter”

July 27, 2020

Adam Wilson’s Playlist for His Novel “Sensation Machines”

July 24, 2020

Vincent Toro’s Playlist for His Poetry Collection “Tertulia”

Michael Credico’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Heartland Calamitous”

Lisa Howorth’s Playlist for Her Novel “Summerlings”

July 23, 2020

Rose Andersen’s Playlist for Her Memoir “The Heart and Other Monsters”

Susan M. Gaines’ Playlist for Her Novel “Accidentals”

July 22, 2020

Sung J. Woo’s Playlist for His Novel “Skin Deep”

July 21, 2020

Justin Taylor’s Playlist for His Memoir “Riding with the Ghost”

L. Annette Binder’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Vanishing Sky”

July 20, 2020

Amanda Brainerd’s Playlist for Her Novel “Age of Consent”

July 17, 2020

Kelli Jo Ford’s Playlist for Her Novel “Crooked Hallelujah”

Ashleigh Bryant Phillips’s Playlist for Her Novel “Sleepovers”

July 16, 2020

Anna Dorn’s Playlist for Her Novel “Vagablonde”

R.L. Maizes’ Playlist for Her Novel “Other People’s Pets”

July 15, 2020

Miles Harvey’s Playlist for His Book “The King of Confidence”

July 14, 2020

Stephen Graham Jones’s Playlist for His Novel “The Only Good Indians”

July 13, 2020

Debra Jo Immergut’s Playlist for Her Novel “You Again”

July 11, 2020

Karen Osborn’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Music Book”

July 7, 2020

Sarah Gerard’s Playlist for Her Novel “True Love”

Robin Wasserman’s Playlist for Her Novel “Mother Daughter Widow Wife”

July 6, 2020

Emily Temple’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Lightness”

July 1, 2020

Guillermo Stitch’s Playlist for His Novel “Lake of Urine”

June 30, 2020

Sophie Mackintosh’s Playlist for Her Novel “Blue Ticket”

June 29, 2020

Ted Rall’s Playlist for His Book “Political Suicide: The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party”

June 26, 2020

Ellen Birkett Morris’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Lost Girls”

June 24, 2020

Lauren J. Sharkey’s Playlist for Her Novel “Inconvenient Daughter”

June 23, 2020

Anna Cox’s Playlist for Her Novel “I Keep My Worries in My Teeth”

June 18, 2020

Chris Dennis’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Here Is What You Do”

June 17, 2020

Katherine Hill’s Playlist for Her Novel “A Short Move”

June 16, 2020

Scott Spencer’s Playlist for His Novel “An Ocean Without a Shore”

June 11, 2020

Rachel Eliza Griffiths’ Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Seeing the Body”

June 10, 2020

Sharon Harrigan’s Playlist for Her Novel “Half”

June 9, 2020

Cooper Lee Bombardier’s Playlist for His Essay Collection “Pass with Care”

June 5, 2020

Christina Chiu’s Playlist for Her Novel “Beauty”

June 4, 2020

Sheree Renée Thomas’s Playlist for Her Collection “Nine Bar Blues”

June 3, 2020

Yuval Taylor’s Playlist for His Book “Zora and Langston”

June 2, 2020

Rebecca Dinerstein Knight’s Playlist for Her Novel “Hex”

June 1, 2020

Timothy S. Miller’s Playlist for His Novel “City of Hate”

May 29, 2020

Sidura Ludwig’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “You Are Not What We Expected”

May 28, 2020

Margo Orlando Littell’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Distance From Four Points”

May 27, 2020

Elliot Ackerman’s Playlist for His Novel “Red Dress in Black and White”

May 26, 2020

Madeline Stevens’ Playlist for Her Novel “Devotion”

May 22, 2020

Tracy O’Neill’s Playlist for Her Novel “Quotients”

May 21, 2020

Nina Renata Aron’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls”

May 20, 2020

Juditha Dowd’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Audubon’s Sparrow”

May 19, 2020

Carter Sickels’ Playlist for His Novel “The Prettiest Star”

May 18, 2020

Erin Khar’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Strung Out”

May 15, 2020

Romesh Gunesekera’s Playlist for His Novel “Suncatcher”

May 14, 2020

Lydia Millet’s Playlist for Her Novel “A Children’s Bible”

May 13, 2020

Forrest Stuart’s Playlist for His Book “Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy”

May 12, 2020

Todd Hasak-Lowy’s Playlist for His Book “We Are Power: How Nonviolent Activism Changes the World”

May 11, 2020

Erika Swyler’s Playlist for Her Novel “Light from Other Stars”

May 8, 2020

Ian Zack’s Playlist for His Book “Odetta”

May 7, 2020

Jordan Farmer’s Playlist for His Novel “The Poison Flood”

May 6, 2020

Brady Hammes’ Playlist for His Novel “The Resolutions”

May 5, 2020

Jennifer Weiner’s Playlist for Her Novel “Big Summer”

May 4, 2020

Bobi Conn’s Playlist for Her Memoir “In the Shadow of the Valley”

May 1, 2020

Melanie Abrams’ Playlist for Her Novel “Meadowlark”

April 30, 2020

Jeni McFarland’s Playlist for Her Novel “The House of Deep Water”

April 29, 2020

Jennifer Calkins’ Playlist for Her Novel “Fugitive Assemblage”

April 28, 2020

Kathe Koja’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Velocities”

April 27, 2020

Adam Levin’s Playlist for His Novel “Bubblegum”

April 24, 2020

Rachel Vorona Cote’s Playlist for Her Book “Too Much”

April 23, 2020

Jessica Winters Mireles’s Playlist for Her Novel “Lost in Oaxaca”

April 22, 2020

Christina Dalcher’s Playlist for Her Novel “Master Class”

April 21, 2020

Scott Newstok’s Playlist for His Book “How to Think like Shakespeare”

April 20, 2020

Ann Lewinson’s Playlist for Her Novella “Still Life with Meredith”

April 17, 2020

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong’s Playlist for Her Book “Pop Star Goddesses”

April 16, 2020

Kelsey Freeman’s Playlist for Her Book “No Option But North”

April 15, 2020

Gina Fattore’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Spinster Diaries”

April 14, 2020

Cynthia Atkins’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Still-Life With God”

April 13, 2020

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s Playlist for Her Novel “Starling Days”

April 9, 2020

David Moloney’s Playlist for His Novel “Barker House”

April 8, 2020

Berit Ellingsen’s Playlist for Her Novel “A Tale of Truths”

April 7, 2020

Kelly Fordon’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “I Have the Answer”

April 6, 2020

Jack Foley’s Playlist for His Poetry Collection “When Sleep Comes: Shillelagh Songs”

April 3, 2020

Rob Doyle’s Playlist for His Novel “Threshold”

April 1, 2020

David Daley’s Playlist for His Book “Unrigged”

March 31, 2020

Cai Emmons’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Vanishing”

March 30, 2020

Sara Rauch’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “What Shines from It”

March 27, 2020

Marianne Chan’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “All Heathens”

March 26, 2020

Beth Lisick’s Playlist for Her Novel “Edie on the Green Screen”

March 25, 2020

Raechel Anne Jolie’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Rust Belt Femme”

March 24, 2020

Cameron Esposito’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Save Yourself”

March 23, 2020

TaraShea Nesbit’s Playlist for Her Novel “Beheld”

March 20, 2020

Sarah Ramey’s Playlist for Her Memoir “The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness”

March 19, 2020

Mary South’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “You Will Never Be Forgotten”

March 18, 2020

Kevin Nguyen’s Playlist for His Novel “New Waves”

March 12, 2020

Joyce Hinnefeld’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “The Beauty of Their Youth”

March 11, 2020

Paul Lynch’s Playlist for His Novel “Beyond the Sea”

Martin Dumont’s Playlist for His Novel “Schrödinger’s Dog”

March 10, 2020

Leesa Cross-Smith’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “So We Can Glow”

Andrew Altschul’s Playlist for His Novel “The Gringa”

March 9, 2020

William Boyle’s Playlist for His Novel “City of Margins”

March 6, 2020

Sue William Silverman’s Playlist for Her Memoir “How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences”

March 4, 2020

Julian K Jarboe’s Playlist for Their Story Collection “Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel”

March 3, 2020

Roy Freirich’s Playlist for His Novel “Deprivation”

Carol Ann Davis’s Playlist for Her Essay Collection “The Nail in the Tree”

February 28, 2020

Cameron Dezen Hammon’s Playlist for Her Memoir “This Is My Body”

February 27, 2020

Jeet Thayil’s Playlist for His Novel “Low”

February 26, 2020

Tiffany Tsao’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Majesties”

February 25, 2020

Chana Porter’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Seep”

February 24, 2020

Mathea Morais’s Playlist for Her Novel “There You Are”

February 19, 2020

Crissy Van Meter’s Playlist for Her Novel “Creatures”

February 18, 2020

William Lychack’s Playlist for His Novel “Cargill Falls”

February 17, 2020

Wesley Browne’s Playlist for His Novel “Hillbilly Hustle”

February 14, 2020

Amina Cain’s Playlist for Her Novel “Indelicacy”

Clare Beams’ Playlist for Her Novel “The Illness Lesson”

Kathleen Donohoe’s Playlist for Her Novel “Ghosts of the Missing”

February 12, 2020

Andrew Krivak’s Playlist for His Novel “The Bear”

February 11, 2020

Katharine Coldiron’s Playlist for Her Novella “Ceremonials”

February 10, 2020

Erin Pringle’s Playlist for Her Novel “Hezada! I Miss You”

February 5, 2020

Kate Hodges’ Playlist for Her Book “Warriors, Witches, Women”

February 4, 2020

Jennifer Spiegel’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Cancer, I’ll Give You One Year”

January 31, 2020

Brad Schreiber’s Playlist for His Book “Music is Power: Popular Songs, Social Justice, and the Will to Change”

January 28, 2020

Sharma Shields’ Playlist for Her Novel “The Cassandra”

January 24, 2020

Luke Geddes’ Playlist for His Debut Novel “Heart of Junk”

Peter Stamm’s Playlist for His Novel “The Sweet Indifference of the World”

January 21, 2020

Lance Olsen’s Playlist for His Novel “My Red Heaven”

January 17, 2020

Jessica Andrews’ Playlist for Her Debut Novel “Saltwater”

January 15, 2020

Rye Curtis’s Playlist for His Debut Novel “Kingdomtide”

January 14, 2020

Jason Brown’ Playlist for His Story Collection “A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed”

January 9, 2020

Sadie Hoagland’s Playlist for Her Short Story Collection “American Grief in Four Stages”

January 8, 2020

Nancy Davis Kho’s Playlist for Her Book “The Thank-You Project”

December 17, 2019

Chrissy Kolaya’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Other Possible Lives”

December 9, 2019

Bryan Furuness’s Playlist for His Novel “Do Not Go on”

December 4, 2019

Kate Wisel’s Playlist for Her Short Story Collection “Driving in Cars with Homeless Men”

December 3, 2019

Curdella Forbes’ Playlist for Her Novel “A Tall History of Sugar”

November 25, 2019

Mary Ann Cain’s Playlist for Her Book “South Side Venus: The Legacy of Margaret Burroughs”

Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne’s Playlist for Her Novel “Holding On To Nothing”

November 21, 2019

Erika Dreifus’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Birthright”

November 20, 2019

Sergio Troncoso’s Playlist for His Story Collection “A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son”

November 8, 2019

Sheila O’Connor’s Playlist for Her Novel “Evidence of V”

Mary Fleming’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Art of Regret”

November 4, 2019

Steph Cha’s Playlist for Her Novel “Your House Will Pay”

October 30, 2019

Nina Allan’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Dollmaker”

October 24, 2019

Kathy Iandoli’s Playlist for Her Book “God Save the Queens”

Mimi Lok’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Last of Her Name”

October 19, 2019

David Dann’s Playlist for His Book “Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield’s Life in the Blues”

October 17, 2019

Cathy Ulrich’s Playlist for Her Short Story Collection “Ghosts of You”

October 16, 2019

Leland Cheuk’s Playlist for His Novel “No Good Very Bad Asian”

October 15, 2019

Marco Rafalà’s Playlist for His Novel “How Fires End”

October 11, 2019

Chris Eaton’s Playlist for His Novel “Symphony No. 3”

Timothy J. Hillegonds’ Playlist for His Memoir “The Distance Between”

October 10, 2019

David Farber’s Playlist for His Book “Crack”

October 9, 2019

Mark Barr’s Playlist for His Novel “Watershed”

October 8, 2019

Veronica Raimo’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Girl at the Door”

October 2, 2019

Wayne Barton’s Playlist for His Novel “Peach”

September 26, 2019

Chris L. Terry’s Playlist for His Novel “Black Card”

September 25, 2019

Brock Clarke’s Playlist for His Novel “Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?”

September 24, 2019

Gary Lippman’s Playlist for His Novel “Set the Controls for the Heart of Sharon Tate”

September 23, 2019

Anita Felicelli’s Playlist for Her Novel “Chimerica”

September 19, 2019

Lisa Lenzo’s Playlist for Her Short Story Collection “Unblinking”

September 17, 2019

Stuart M. Ross’s Playlist for His Novel “Jenny in Corona”

September 12, 2019

Rob Hart’s Playlist for His Novel “The Warehouse”

September 10, 2019

Peggy Frew’s Playlist for Her Novel “Hope Farm”

September 9, 2019

David Leo Rice’s Playlist for His Novel “Angel House”

Amy Long’s Playlist for Her Essay Collection “Codependence”

September 6, 2019

Janaka Stucky’s Playlist for His Poetry Collection “Ascend Ascend”

August 29, 2019

Paul Tremblay’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Growing Things”

August 28, 2019

George Singleton’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Staff Picks”

August 21, 2019

Silas House’s Playlist for His Novel “Southernmost”

August 16, 2019

John Doe and Tom DeSavia’s Playlist for Their Book “More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk”

August 14, 2019

Alex Segura’s Playlist for His Novel “Miami Midnight”

August 8, 2019

Alex DiFrancesco’s Playlist for Their Novel “All City”

August 5, 2019

Tammy Lynne Stoner’s Playlist for Her Novel “Sugar Land”

Jean Kwok’s Playlist for Her Novel “Searching for Sylvie Lee”

July 30, 2019

Joel Mowdy’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Floyd Harbor”

July 19, 2019

Peg Alford Pursell’s Playlist for Her Short Story Collection “A Girl Goes Into the Forest”

John Domini’s Playlist for His Novel “The Color Inside a Melon”

July 16, 2019

CJ Hauser’s Playlist for Her Novel “Family of Origin”

July 15, 2019

Amanda Lee Koe’s Playlist for Her Novel “Delayed Rays of a Star”

July 12, 2019

Virginia Reeves’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Behavior of Love”

Ryan Blacketter’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Horses All Over Hell”

July 11, 2019

Julie Zuckerman’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Book of Jeremiah”

July 9, 2019

Juliet Escoria’s Playlist for Her Novel “Juliet the Maniac”

July 8, 2019

Mona Awad’s Playlist for Her Novel “Bunny”

June 28, 2019

Stacy Horn’s Playlist for Her Book “Damnation Island”

June 21, 2019

Susan Rudnick’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Edna’s Gift”

June 19, 2019

Catherine Chung’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Tenth Muse”

Heidi Diehl’s Playlist for Her Novel “Lifelines”

June 17, 2019

Chris Gabbard’s Playlist for His Memoir “A Life Beyond Reason”

June 14, 2019

Lauren Acampora’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Paper Wasp”

David Carlin and Nicole Walker’s Playlist for Their Book “The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet”

June 12, 2019

Caroline Louise Walker’s Playlist for Her Novel “Man of the Year”

June 5, 2019

Bram Presser’s Playlist for His Novel “The Book of Dirt”

June 4, 2019

David Huddle’s Playlist for His Novel “Hazel”

June 3, 2019

Gregory Spatz’s Playlist for His Short Fiction Collection “What Could Be Saved”

May 21, 2019

Karen Havelin’s Playlist for Her Novel “Please Read This Leaflet Carefully”

Kristin George Bagdanov’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Fossils in the Making”

May 16, 2019

Kenji C. Liu’s Playlist for His Poetry Collection “Monsters I Have Been”

May 14, 2019

John Glynn’s Playlist for His Memoir “Out East”

Peter Rock’s Playlist for His Novel “The Night Swimmers”

David Ebenbach’s Playlist for His Poetry Collection “Some Unimaginable Animal”

Beth Alvarado’s Playlist for Her Essay Collection “Anxious Attachments”

May 7, 2019

Sassafras Lowrey’s Playlist for Hir Novel “Healing/Heeling”

May 6, 2019

Dmitry Samarov’s Playlist for His Book “Music to My Eyes”

May 2, 2019

Rachel Cline’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Question Authority”

April 30, 2019

Saskia Vogel’s Playlist for Her Novel “Permission”

Stewart O’Nan’s Playlist for His Novel “Henry, Himself”

April 28, 2019

Mathangi Subramanian’s Playlist for Her Novel “A People’s History of Heaven”

April 23, 2019

C. J. Farley’s Playlist for His Novel “Around Harvard Square”

H. S. Cross’s Playlist for Her Novel “Grievous”

Trent Dalton’s Playlist for His Novel “Boy Swallows Universe”

April 19, 2019

Rachel Howard’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Risk of Us”

April 16, 2019

Molly Dektar’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Ash Family”

April 12, 2019

Sarah Blake’s Playlist for Her Novel “Naamah”

Jessica Handler’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Magnetic Girl”

April 10, 2019

Christian Kiefer’s Playlist for His Novel “Phantoms”

April 8, 2019

Joseph Grantham’s Playlist for His Poetry Collection “Tom Sawyer”

April 3, 2019

Hal Schrieve’s Playlist for Hir Novel “Out of Salem”

March 29, 2019

Seth Fried’s Playlist for His Novel “The Municipalists”

Lynn Lurie’s Playlist for Her Novel “Museum of Stones”

Josh Denslow’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Not Everyone Is Special”

March 26, 2019

Keith Rosson’s Playlist for His Novel “Smoke City”

March 24, 2019

Bryan Washington’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Lot”

March 21, 2019

Polly Rosenwaike’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Look How Happy I’m Making You”

March 20, 2019

Chelsey Johnson’s Playlist for Her Novel “Stray City”

March 18, 2019

HM Naqvi’s Playlist for His Novel “The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack”

March 14, 2019

Joseph Scapellato’s Playlist for His Novel “The Made-Up Man”

March 13, 2019

Richard Chiem ‘s Playlist for His Novel “King of Joy”

Jordan A. Rothacker’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Gristle”

K Chess’s Playlist for Her Novel “Famous Men Who Never Lived”

March 12, 2019

William Boyle’s Playlist for His Novel “A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself”

Joe Wilkins’ Playlist for His Novel “Fall Back Down When I Die”

March 6, 2019

Salvatore Scibona’s Playlist for His Novel “The Volunteer”

Andrew Ridker’s Playlist for His Novel “The Altruists”

Nickolas Butler’s Playlist for His Novel “Little Faith”

Katie Peterson’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “A Piece of Good News”

February 28, 2019

James Sullivan’s Playlist for His Book “Which Side Are You On?”

February 26, 2019

Alex DiFrancesco’s Playlist for Their Essay Collection “Psychopomps”

February 21, 2019

Brendan Mathews’s Playlist for His Short Fiction Collection “This Is Not a Love Song”

February 20, 2019

Will Ashon’s Playlist for His Book “Chamber Music: Wu-Tang and America”

February 19, 2019

Lindsay Stern’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Study of Animal Languages”

J.S. Breukelaar’s Playlist for Her Short Fiction Collection “Collision”

February 18, 2019

Raymond Strom’s Playlist for His Novel “Northern Lights”

February 13, 2019

Tosh Berman’s Playlist for His Memoir “Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World”

February 12, 2019

Angela Readman’s Playlist for Her Novel “Something Like Breathing”

February 6, 2019

Amy Feltman’s Playlist for Her Novel “Willa & Hesper”

February 5, 2019

Lisa Gornick’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Peacock Feast”

Snowden Wright’s Playlist for His Novel “American Pop”

February 4, 2019

Hanif Abdurraqib’s Playlist for His Book “Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest”

Michael Downing’s Playlist for His Novel “Still in Love”

Andrew Cotto’s Playlist for His Novel “Cucina Tipica”

January 30, 2019

Benedict Wells’ Playlist for His Novel “The End of Loneliness”

January 29, 2019

Dana Czapnik’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Falconer”

Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s Playlist for His Novel “We Cast a Shadow”

January 28, 2019

Steph Post’s Playlist for Her Novel “Miraculum”

January 18, 2019

Duke Haney’s Playlist for His Essay Collection “Death Valley Superstars”

January 17, 2019

Marci Vogel’s Playlist for Her Novella “Death and Other Holidays”

January 16, 2019

Brendan Lorber’s Playlist for His Poetry Collection “If This Is Paradise Why Are We Still Driving”

January 14, 2019

David A. Taylor’s Playlist for His Book “Cork Wars”

January 8, 2019

Chris Power’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Mothers”

December 17, 2018

Oyinkan Braithwaite’s Playlist for Her Novel “My Sister, the Serial Killer”

December 5, 2018

Susan Bernhard’s Playlist for Her Novel “Winter Loon”

December 3, 2018

Gillian Cummings’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter”

November 30, 2018

Dan Callahan’s Playlist for His Novel “That Was Something”

November 29, 2018

Lance Scott Walker’s Playlist for His Book “Houston Rap Tapes: An Oral History of Bayou City Hip-Hop”

Julietta Singh’s Playlist for Her Book “No Archive Will Restore You”

November 28, 2018

Cai Emmons’ Playlist for Her Novel “Weather Woman”

November 26, 2018

Malachy Tallack’s Playlist for His Novel “The Valley at the Centre of the World”

November 20, 2018

Laura Adamczyk’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Hardly Children”

Elisa Gabbert’s Playlist for Her Essay Collection “The Word Pretty”

November 19, 2018

Marina Benjamin’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Insomnia”

Kareem Tayyar’s Playlist for His Novel “The Prince of Orange County”

November 15, 2018

Jenn Stroud Rossmann’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Place You’re Supposed to Laugh”

November 13, 2018

Jaclyn Gilbert’s Playlist for Her Novel “Late Air”

Maria Romasco Moore’s Playlist for Her Novella “Ghostographs”

November 9, 2018

Brielle Brilliant’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Spud”

November 8, 2018

Helen Klein Ross’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Latecomers”

November 7, 2018

Jonathan Lethem’s Playlist for His Novel “The Feral Detective”

November 6, 2018

Maryse Meijer’s Playlist for Her Novella “Northwood”

November 5, 2018

Jeremy T. Wilson’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Adult Teeth”

November 2, 2018

Idra Novey’s Playlist for Her Novel “Those Who Knew”

Anita Felicelli’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Love Songs for a Lost Continent”

October 31, 2018

Alicia Jo Rabins’ Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Fruit Geode”

October 30, 2018

David Grann’s Playlist for His Book “The White Darkness”

October 29, 2018

Michael J. Seidlinger’s Playlist for His Novel “My Pet Serial Killer”

Kate Gavino’s Playlist for Her Graphic Novel “Sanpaku”

October 26, 2018

Mohamed Asem’s Playlist for His Memoir “Stranger in the Pen”

October 25, 2018

Erin Hoover’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Barnburner”

October 24, 2018

May-lee Chai’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Useful Phrases for Immigrants”

October 23, 2018

Michelle Bailat-Jones’s Playlist for Her Novel “Unfurled”

October 22, 2018

Ruth Danon’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Word Has It”

October 19, 2018

Brian Laidlaw’s Playlist for His Poetry Collection “The Mirrormaker”

October 18, 2018

Jeff Jackson’s Playlist for His Novel “Destroy All Monsters”

Donald Quist’s Playlist for His Short Story Collection “For Other Ghosts”

October 17, 2018

B. A. Shapiro’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Collector’s Apprentice”

October 16, 2018

Laird Hunt’s Playlist for His Novel “In the House in the Dark of the Woods”

Octavio Solis’s Playlist for His Memoir “Retablos”

October 15, 2018

Tom Bennitt’s Playlist for His Novel “Burning Under”

October 12, 2018

Jean Thompson’s Playlist for Her Novel “A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl”

October 10, 2018

John Wray’s Playlist for His Novel “Godsend”

October 9, 2018

Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “White Dancing Elephants”

October 5, 2018

Anne-Marie Kinney’s Playlist for Her Novel “Coldwater Canyon”

October 2, 2018

Simon Van Booy’s Playlist for His Story Collection “The Sadness of Beautiful Things”

September 27, 2018

Camille A. Collins’ Playlist for Her Novel “The Exene Chronicles”

September 26, 2018

Tim Mohr’s Playlist for His Book “Burning Down the Haus”

September 25, 2018

Stephen Markley’s Playlist for His Novel “Ohio”

September 24, 2018

Christina Dalcher’s Playlist for Her Novel “Vox”

September 21, 2018

Chris Womersley’s Playlist for His Novel “City of Crows”

September 20, 2018

Andrew Bomback’s Playlist for His Book “Doctor”

September 19, 2018

Kimberly Lojewski’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Worm Fiddling Nocturne in the Key of a Broken Heart”

September 18, 2018

Rita Dragonette’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Fourteenth of September”

September 17, 2018

Anna Clark’s Playlist for Her Book “The Poisoned City”

September 14, 2018

Tita Chico’s Playlist for Her Book “The Experimental Imagination”

September 13, 2018

Claudia Dey’s Playlist for Her Novel “Heartbreaker”

September 12, 2018

Evan Fallenberg’s Playlist for His Novel “The Parting Gift”

September 11, 2018

Diana Evans’ Playlist for Her Novel “Ordinary People”

Fatimah Asghar’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “If They Come for Us”

September 10, 2018

Melanie Hobson’s Playlist for Her Novel “Summer Cannibals”

September 7, 2018

Elliot Reed’s Playlist for His Novel “A Key to Treehouse Living”

September 6, 2018

Lydia Kiesling’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Golden State”

September 5, 2018

Leah Dieterich’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Vanishing Twins”

September 4, 2018

Sharlene Teo’s Playlist for Her Novel “Ponti”

Alice Hatcher’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Wonder That Was Ours”

August 30, 2018

S. K. Perry’s Playlist for Her Novel “Let Me Be Like Water”

August 29, 2018

Joshua Cohen’s Playlist for His Novel “Moving Kings”

August 28, 2018

Matthew Klam’s Playlist for His Novel “Who Is Rich?”

Tod Davies’ Playlist for Her Novel “Report to Megalopolis”

August 27, 2018

Matthew Cutter’s Playlist for His Book “Closer You Are”

Frances de Pontes Peebles’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Air You Breathe”

August 22, 2018

Randy Kennedy’s Playlist for His Novel “Presidio”

August 21, 2018

Seth Greenland’s Playlist for His Novel “The Hazards of Good Fortune”

August 20, 2018

Peter Anderson’s Playlist for His Story Collection “Where The Marshland Came To Flower”

August 17, 2018

Kristi Coulter’s Playlist for Her Essay Collection “Nothing Good Can Come from This”

August 16, 2018

Rebecca Makkai’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Great Believers”

August 15, 2018

Inman Majors’ Playlist for His Novel “Penelope Lemon”

August 14, 2018

Ling Ma’s Playlist for Her Novel “Severance”

Julian Gough’s Playlist for His Novel “Connect”

August 13, 2018

Nicole Rivas’s Playlist for Her Flash Fiction Collection “A Bright and Pleading Dagger”

August 10, 2018

Charlotte Seley’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “The World Is My Rival”

August 9, 2018

Joshua Mattson’s Playlist for His Novel “A Short Film About Disappointment”

Heather Abel’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Optimistic Decade”

August 8, 2018

Laura van den Berg’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Third Hotel”

Jon McGregor’s Playlist for His Novel “The Reservoir Tapes”

August 7, 2018

Lisa Locascio’s Playlist for Her Novel “Open Me”

Jennifer Spiegel’s Playlist for Her Novel “And So We Die, Having First Slept”

August 3, 2018

Andrew Martin’s Playlist for His Novel “Early Work”

Genevieve Hudson’s Playlist for Her Short Story Collection “Pretend We Live Here”

Miriam Parker’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Shortest Way Home”

July 31, 2018

R. O. Kwon’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Incendiaries”

July 30, 2018

Michele Mendelssohn’s Playlist for Her Book “Making Oscar Wilde”

Caoilinn Hughes’s Playlist for Her Novel “Orchid & the Wasp”

July 27, 2018

Roy Scranton’s Playlist for His Essay Collection “We’re Doomed. Now What?”

Caleb Johnson’s Playlist for His Novel “Treeborne”

July 25, 2018

Thea Lim’s Playlist for Her Novel “An Ocean of Minutes”

Andrea Kleine’s Playlist for Her Novel “Eden”

July 24, 2018

Alexia Arthurs’s Playlist for Her Short Story Collection “How to Love a Jamaican”

Allie Rowbottom’s Playlist for Her Memoir “JELL-O Girls”

July 23, 2018

Paul Tremblay’s Playlist for His Novel “The Cabin at the End of the World”

Tamara Shopsin’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Arbitrary Stupid Goal”

July 20, 2018

Adele Griffin’s Playlist for Her Novel “Tell Me No Lies”

Playlist for the Anthology “Santa Cruz Noir”

July 19, 2018

Amanda Stern’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Little Panic”

July 18, 2018

J. Bradley’s Playlist for His Short Fiction Collection “Neil and Other Stories”

Tatjana Soli’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Removes”

July 17, 2018

Vanessa Blakeslee’s Playlist for Her Short Story Collection “Perfect Conditions”

Louise Miller’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Late Bloomers’ Club”

July 16, 2018

Joanna C Valente’s Playlist for Their Poetry Collection “Sexting Ghosts”

July 13, 2018

Mauricio Segura’s Playlist for His Novel “Oscar”

July 12, 2018

Tabitha Blankenbiller’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Eats of Eden”

July 11, 2018

Paige Cooper’s Playlist for Her Short Story Collectionl “Zolitude”

July 10, 2018

Rob Young’s Playlist for His Book “All Gates Open: The Story of CAN”

Laura Catherine Brown’s Playlist for Her Novel “Made by Mary”

July 9, 2018

Mikkel Rosengaard’s Playlist for His Novel “The Invention of Ana”

July 3, 2018

Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto’s Playlist for Their Anthology “Tiny Crimes”

David McGlynn’s Playlist for His Essay Collection “One Day You’ll Thank Me”

June 28, 2018

Sergio De La Pava’s Playlist for His Novel “Lost Empress”

June 27, 2018

Jordy Rosenberg’s Playlist for His Novel “Confessions of the Fox”

June 26, 2018

Joanna Luloff’s Playlist for Her Novel “Remind Me Again What Happened”

June 25, 2018

Joe Mungo Reed’s Playlist for His Novel “We Begin Our Ascent”

June 22, 2018

Karl Taro Greenfeld’s Playlist for His Novel “True”

Barney Hoskyns’ Playlist for His Book “Major Dudes: A Steely Dan Companion”

June 21, 2018

Roxane Gay’s Playlist for Her Collection “Ayiti”

June 20, 2018

Hannah Pittard’s Playlist for Her Novel “Visible Empire”

June 19, 2018

Peter Coviello’s Playlist for His Memoir “Long Players”

Philip Hoare’s Playlist for His Book “RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR”

June 18, 2018

Scott Samuelson’s Playlist for His Book “Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering”

June 15, 2018

Carla Guelfenbein’s Playlist for Her Novel “In the Distance with You”

Peter Mishler’s Playlist for His Poetry Collection “Fludde”

June 14, 2018

James Campion’s Playlist for His Book “Accidentally Like a Martyr: The Tortured Art of Warren Zevon”

June 13, 2018

Mark Haskell Smith’s Playlist for His Novel “Blown”

June 12, 2018

Lee Martin’s Playlist for His Short Story Collection “The Mutual UFO Network”

June 11, 2018

Adrienne Sharp’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Magnificent Esme Wells”

June 8, 2018

Debra Jo Immergut’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Captives”

Curtis Smith’s Playlist for His Novel “Lovepain”

June 7, 2018

Karen Finley’s Playlist for Her Book “Grabbing Pussy”

June 6, 2018

Chelsea Hodson’s Playlist for Her Essay Collection “Tonight I’m Someone Else”

Gaël Faye’s Playlist for His Novel “Small Country”

June 5, 2018

Adrienne Celt’s Playlist for Her Novel “Invitation to a Bonfire”

Raymond A. Villareal’s Playlist for His Novel “A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising”

June 4, 2018

Chase Berggrun’s Playlist for Their Poetry Collection “R E D”

June 1, 2018

Martin Ott’s Playlist for His Poetry Collection “Lessons in Camouflage”

May 31, 2018

Cutter Wood’s Playlist for His Book “Love and Death in the Sunshine State”

May 30, 2018

P. William Grimm’s Playlist for His Novel “Jex Blackwell Saves the World”

May 29, 2018

Elle Nash’s Playlist for Her Novel “Animals Eat Each Other”

Jen Silverman’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “The Island Dwellers”

May 24, 2018

Katie Rogin’s Playlist for Her Novel “Life During Wartime”

Bill Sullivan’s Playlist for His Memoir “Lemon Jail: On the Road with the Replacements”

May 23, 2018

Joe Fletcher’s Playlist for His Collection “The Hatch”

May 22, 2018

Daniel Gumbiner’s Playlist for His Novel “The Boatbuilder”

Jo Scott-Coe’s Playlist for Her Book “MASS”

May 21, 2018

Leah Umansky’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “The Barbarous Century”

May 18, 2018

Laura Davis-Chanin’s Playlist for Her Memoir “The Girl in the Back: A Female Drummer’s Life with Bowie, Blondie, and the ’70s Rock Scene”

May 17, 2018

Elizabeth H. Winthrop’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Mercy Seat”

May 16, 2018

Julia Dixon Evans’s Playlist for Her Novel “How to Set Yourself on Fire”

May 15, 2018

Kevin Powers’ Playlist for His Novel “A Shout in the Ruins”

Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple’s Playlist for Their Book “Brothers of the Gun”

May 14, 2018

Julia Fine’s Playlist for Her Novel “What Should Be Wild”

Todd Robert Petersen’s Playlist for His Novel “It Needs to Look Like We Tried”

May 10, 2018

Steven Hyden’s Playlist for His Book “Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock”

May 9, 2018

Rita Bullwinkel’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “Belly Up”

May 8, 2018

Joanna Cantor’s Playlist for Her Novel “Alternative Remedies for Loss”

Alex Segura’s Playlist for His Novel “Blackout”

May 7, 2018

Brendan Kiely’s Playlist for His Novel “Tradition”

May 4, 2018

William Boyle’s Playlist for His Novel “The Lonely Witness”

May 3, 2018

Lucas Mann’s Playlist for His Book “Captive Audience”

May 2, 2018

Abraham Smith’s Playlist for His Book “Destruction of Man”

May 1, 2018

Emmanuelle de Villepin’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Devil’s Reward”

Lisa Romeo’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Starting with Goodbye”

April 30, 2018

Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Map of Salt and Stars”

April 24, 2018

Joe Donnelly’s Playlist for His Essay Collection “L.A. Man”

April 20, 2018

Liz Crain’s Playlist for Her Book “Grow Your Own”

April 19, 2018

Malinda McCollum’s Playlist for Her Short Story Collection “The Surprising Place”

April 18, 2018

Elise Juska’s Playlist for Her Novel “If We Had Known”

April 17, 2018

Rebekah Frumkin’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Comedown”

Sofija Stefanovic’s Playlist for Her Memoir “Miss Ex-Yugoslavia”

April 13, 2018

Jackson Ellis’s Playlist for His Novel “Lords of St. Thomas”

April 12, 2018

Steve Kistulentz’s Playlist for His Novel “Panorama”

April 11, 2018

Cynan Jones’s Playlist for His Novel “Cove”

Jez Burrows’ Playlist for His Short Story Collection “Dictionary Stories”

April 10, 2018

Therese Bohman’s Playlist for Her Novel “Eventide”

April 9, 2018

Lauren Elkin’s Playlist for Her Book “Flâneuse”

April 6, 2018

Michael Imperioli’s Playlist for His Novel “The Perfume Burned His Eyes”

April 5, 2018

Jonathan Evison’s Playlist for His Novel “Lawn Boy”

April 4, 2018

Weike Wang’s Playlist for Her Novel “Chemistry”

April 3, 2018

Poe Ballantine’s Playlist for His Novel “Whirlaway”

Michael Kardos’s Playlist for His Novel “Bluff”

April 2, 2018

Jeff Apter’s Playlist for His Book “High Voltage: The Life of Angus Young, AC/DC’s Last Man Standing”

March 31, 2018

Book Notes (2015 – 2017)

March 29, 2018

Jennifer Clement’s Playlist for Her Novel “Gun Love”

March 28, 2018

Andrea Barnet’s Playlist for Her Book “Visionary Women”

March 27, 2018

Rebecca Kauffman’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Gunners”

Leah Stewart’s Playlist for Her Novel “What You Don’t Know About Charlie Outlaw”

Simon Jacobs’s Playlist for His Novel “Palaces”

March 23, 2018

Tyler McMahon’s Playlist for His Novel “Dream of Another America”

March 22, 2018

Akwaeke Emezi’s Playlist for Her Novel “Freshwater”

Steven Seidenberg’s Playlist for “Situ”

March 21, 2018

Book Notes – Tadzio Koelb “Trenton Makes”

Book Notes – Jamey Bradbury “The Wild Inside”

March 20, 2018

Book Notes – Wendell Steavenson “Paris Metro”

March 19, 2018

Book Notes – Jaroslav Kalfar “Spaceman of Bohemia”

March 16, 2018

Book Notes – Patrick Nathan “Some Hell”

March 15, 2018

Book Notes – Curtis White “Lacking Character”

March 14, 2018

Book Notes – Lynne Tillman “Men and Apparitions”

Book Notes – Stephen Kuusisto “Have Dog, Will Travel”

March 13, 2018

Book Notes – Sarah Henstra “The Red Word”

March 12, 2018

Book Notes – Michael Noll “The Writer’s Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction”

March 9, 2018

Book Notes – Matt Young “Eat the Apple”

March 8, 2018

Book Notes – Leesa Cross-Smith “Whiskey & Ribbons”

March 7, 2018

Book Notes – Ryan H. Walsh “Astral Weeks”

March 6, 2018

Book Notes – Meghan Kenny “The Driest Season”

March 5, 2018

Book Notes – Natalie Singer “California Calling”

Book Notes – Emma Byrne “Swearing Is Good for You”

March 2, 2018

Book Notes – Joanne Serling “Good Neighbors”

March 1, 2018

Book Notes – Peter Stenson “Thirty-Seven”

February 28, 2018

Book Notes – Scott O’Connor “A Perfect Universe”

Book Notes – Vincent Chu “Like A Champion”

February 27, 2018

Book Notes – Del Samatar “Monster Portraits”

February 26, 2018

Book Notes – Anne Raeff “Winter Kept Us Warm”

Book Notes – Douglas Light “Where Night Stops”

February 23, 2018

Book Notes – Kaethe Schwehn “The Rending and the Nest”

February 21, 2018

Book Notes – Kelly Barnhill “Dreadful Young Ladies, and Other Stories”

Book Notes – Andrea Gibson “Take Me With You”

Book Notes – Jonathan Blunk “James Wright: A Life in Poetry”

February 19, 2018

Book Notes – Cheston Knapp “Up Up, Down Down”

February 16, 2018

Book Notes – Ryan McIlvain “The Radicals”

February 14, 2018

Book Notes – Tim Wirkus “The Infinite Future”

Book Notes – Michael Nye “All the Castles Burned”

February 13, 2018

Book Notes – Lauren Moseley “Big Windows”

February 12, 2018

Book Notes – Danielle Lazarin “Back Talk”

Book Notes – Tom Sweterlitsch “The Gone World”

February 9, 2018

Book Notes – Terese Marie Mailhot “Heart Berries”

February 8, 2018

Book Notes – David Peisner “Homey Don’t Play That!”

February 7, 2018

Book Notes – Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi “Call Me Zebra”

February 6, 2018

Book Notes – Tayari Jones “An American Marriage”

Book Notes – Alex Higley “Old Open”

February 5, 2018

Book Notes – Anca L Szilagyi “Daughters of the Air”

Book Notes – Hillary Chute “Why Comics?”

Book Notes – David Keenan “This Is Memorial Device”

February 2, 2018

Book Notes – Michael A. Ferro “TITLE 13”

January 31, 2018

Book Notes – Xhenet Aliu “Brass”

Book Notes – David Giffels “Furnishing Eternity”

January 30, 2018

Book Notes – Morgan Jerkins “This Will Be My Undoing”

January 29, 2018

Book Notes – Chandler Klang Smith “The Sky Is Yours”

Book Notes – Man Martin “The Lemon Jell-O Syndrome”

January 25, 2018

Book Notes – Giano Cromley “What We Build Upon the Ruins”

January 24, 2018

Book Notes – Sandra Allen “A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise”

January 23, 2018

Book Notes – Timmy Reed “Kill Me Now”

January 22, 2018

Book Notes – Thomas Mira y Lopez “The Book of Resting Places”

Book Notes – Tyrell Johnson “The Wolves of Winter”

January 19, 2018

Book Notes – Will Dowd “Areas of Fog”

January 18, 2018

Book Notes – Neel Mukherjee “A State of Freedom”

January 17, 2018

Book Notes – Deborah Reed “The Days When Birds Come Back”

January 16, 2018

Book Notes – Steph Post “Walk In The Fire”

January 12, 2018

Book Notes – Thomas Pierce “The Afterlives”

January 11, 2018

Book Notes – Christopher J. Yates “Grist Mill Road”

January 10, 2018

Book Notes – Alan Michael Parker “Christmas in July”

January 9, 2018

Book Notes – Robin MacArthur “Heart Spring Mountain”

Book Notes – Colin Winnette “The Job of the Wasp”

January 3, 2018

Book Notes – James Han Mattson “The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves”

January 2, 2018

Book Notes – Maud Casey “The Art of Mystery”

December 12, 2017

Book Notes – Kiki Petrosino “Witch Wife”

November 30, 2017

Book Notes – Joseph Keckler “Dragon at the Edge of a Flat World”

November 29, 2017

Book Notes – Ross Simonini “The Book of Formation”

November 28, 2017

Book Notes – Dinitia Smith “The Honeymoon”

November 27, 2017

Book Notes – Maryl Jo Fox “Clara at the Edge”

November 21, 2017

Book Notes – Richard F. Thomas “Why Bob Dylan Matters”

November 16, 2017

Book Notes – Gayle Brandeis “The Art of Misdiagnosis”

November 15, 2017

Book Notes – Jessica Keener “Strangers in Budapest”

November 14, 2017

Book Notes – Amy P. Knight “Lost, Almost”

November 8, 2017

Book Notes – Shane Hinton “We Can’t Help It If We’re From Florida”

November 7, 2017

Book Notes – Louise Miller “The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living”

November 6, 2017

Book Notes – Becky Mandelbaum “Bad Kansas”

Book Notes – Rebecca Wait “The Followers”

November 3, 2017

Book Notes – Sung Yim “What About the Rest of Your Life”

November 2, 2017

Book Notes – Christopher Irvin “Ragged”

October 30, 2017

Book Notes – Nikki Giovanni “A Good Cry”

Book Notes – Phil Harrison “The First Day”

October 25, 2017

Book Notes – Stephanie Burt “Advice from the Lights”

Book Notes – John Dolan “The War Nerd Iliad”

October 23, 2017

Book Notes – Hernan Diaz “In the Distance”

Book Notes – Joshua Max Feldman “Start Without Me”

October 18, 2017

Book Notes – Ray Padgett “Cover Me: The Stories Behind the Greatest Cover Songs of All Time”

October 17, 2017

Book Notes – C. Morgan Babst “The Floating World”

October 16, 2017

Book Notes – Pamela Ryder “Paradise Field”

Book Notes – Barney Hoskyns “Joni: The Anthology”

October 13, 2017

Book Notes – R. Dean Johnson “Californium”

October 12, 2017

Book Notes – Alex Behr “Planet Grim”

October 11, 2017

Book Notes – Celeste Ng “Little Fires Everywhere”

Book Notes – Wiley Cash “The Last Ballad”

October 10, 2017

Book Notes – Sorayya Khan “City of Spies”

Book Notes – Tatiana Ryckman “I Don’t Think of You (Until I Do)”

October 5, 2017

Book Notes – Constance Squires “Live from Medicine Park”

Book Notes – Bradford Morrow “The Prague Sonata”

October 4, 2017

Book Notes – Jeffrey Schultz “Civil Twilight”

October 3, 2017

Book Notes – Josh Weil “The Age of Perpetual Light”

Book Notes – Peter Stamm “To the Back of Beyond”

October 2, 2017

Book Notes – Adam Gussow “Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition”

Book Notes – James Grady and Keir Graff “Montana Noir”

September 29, 2017

Book Notes – Melissa Fraterrigo “Glory Days”

September 28, 2017

Book Notes – Daniel Kane “‘Do You Have a Band?'”

September 27, 2017

Book Notes – Chantel Acevedo “The Living Infinite”

Book Notes – David Friend “The Naughty Nineties”

September 26, 2017

Book Notes – Stephen King and Owen King “Sleeping Beauties”

Book Notes – Alice Anderson “Some Bright Morning, I’ll Fly Away”

September 25, 2017

Book Notes – Pat Thomas “Did It! From Yippie To Yuppie: Jerry Rubin, An American Revolutionary”

Book Notes – Rodrigo Hasbún “Affections”

September 21, 2017

Book Notes – Lisa Ko “The Leavers”

Book Notes – Jorge Armenteros “The Roar of the River”

September 20, 2017

Book Notes – John Haskell “The Complete Ballet”

Book Notes – Scott Esposito “The Doubles”

September 19, 2017

Book Notes – Kaveh Akbar “Calling a Wolf a Wolf”

Book Notes – Jude Angelini “Hummingbird”

September 18, 2017

Book Notes – Ariel Gore “We Were Witches”

Book Notes – Joyce Maynard “The Best of Us”

September 15, 2017

Book Notes – Margo Berdeshevsky “Before the Drought”

September 14, 2017

Book Notes – Tod Goldberg “Gangster Nation”

September 13, 2017

Book Notes – Jason Tougaw “The One You Get”

Book Notes – Zachary Schomburg “Mammother”

September 12, 2017

Book Notes – Chelsea Martin “Caca Dolce”

September 11, 2017

Book Notes – Tayari Jones “Atlanta Noir”

Book Notes – Sean Egan “The Who on the Who”

September 8, 2017

Book Notes – Alison Moore “The Lighthouse”

September 7, 2017

Book Notes – Ryan Gattis “Safe”

September 6, 2017

Book Notes – Holly Goddard Jones “The Salt Line”

Book Notes – KL Pereira “A Dream Between Two Rivers”

September 5, 2017

Book Notes – Rene Denfeld “The Child Finder”

Book Notes – Anna Lena Phillips Bell “Ornament”

September 1, 2017

Book Notes – Karl Geary “Montpelier Parade”

August 31, 2017

Book Notes – Molly Patterson “Rebellion”

August 30, 2017

Book Notes – Robert Ferguson “Scandinavians”

August 28, 2017

Book Notes – Sara Taylor “The Lauras”

Book Notes – Victor Corona “Night Class”

August 25, 2017

Book Notes – Lucy Ives “Impossible Views of the World”

August 23, 2017

Book Notes – Alistair McCartney “The Disintegrations”

August 22, 2017

Book Notes – Jarett Kobek “The Future Won’t Be Long”

August 21, 2017

Book Notes – Jarret Middleton “Darkansas”

August 18, 2017

Book Notes – Caitlin Hamilton Summie “To Lay To Rest Our Ghosts”

August 17, 2017

Book Notes – Matthew Zapruder “Why Poetry”

August 16, 2017

Book Notes – Fiona Helmsley “Girls Gone Old”

August 15, 2017

Book Notes – Paul Yoon “The Mountain”

August 14, 2017

Book Notes – Sylvia Brownrigg “Pages For Her”

August 11, 2017

Book Notes – Suzanne Burns “The Veneration of Monsters”

August 10, 2017

Book Notes – Jonathan Ashley “South of Cincinnati”

August 9, 2017

Book Notes – Jardine Libaire “White Fur”

August 8, 2017

Book Notes – Jennifer Tseng “The Passion of Woo & Isolde”

August 7, 2017

Book Notes – Sarah Schmidt “See What I Have Done”

August 4, 2017

Book Notes – Scott Gould “Strangers to Temptation”

August 3, 2017

Book Notes – Augustus Rose “The Readymade Thief”

August 2, 2017

Book Notes – Theodore Wheeler “Kings of Broken Things”

August 1, 2017

Book Notes – Kristen Iskandrian “Motherest”

Book Notes – Danya Kukafka “Girl in Snow”

July 28, 2017

Book Notes – David Gessner “Ultimate Glory”

July 26, 2017

Book Notes – Elaine M. Hayes “Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan”

July 25, 2017

Book Notes – Jay Baron Nicorvo “The Standard Grand”

July 24, 2017

Book Notes – Melissa Febos “Abandon Me”

Book Notes – David Williams “When the English Fall”

July 21, 2017

Book Notes – David Burr Gerrard “The Epiphany Machine”

July 20, 2017

Book Notes – Anthony Tambakis “Swimming with Bridgeport Girls”

July 19, 2017

Book Notes – Andrew Sean Greer “Less”

Book Notes – James Kelman “Dirt Road”

Book Notes – Gunnhild Øyehaug “Knots”

July 18, 2017

Book Notes – Noley Reid “Pretend We Are Lovely”

Book Notes – Christopher Bollen “The Destroyers”

Book Notes – Brian Platzer “Bed-Stuy Is Burning”

July 17, 2017

Book Notes – Rachel Khong “Goodbye, Vitamin”

Book Notes – Monica Carol Miller “Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion”

July 14, 2017

Book Notes – Dina Nayeri “Refuge”

July 10, 2017

Book Notes – Madison Smartt Bell “Behind the Moon”

July 7, 2017

Book Notes – Patrick Dacey “The Outer Cape”

July 6, 2017

Book Notes – Bill Roorbach “The Girl of the Lake”

July 5, 2017

Book Notes – Ian Stansel “The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo”

July 3, 2017

Book Notes – Don Waters “The Saints of Rattlesnake Mountain”

June 30, 2017

Book Notes – Jeffrey Costello & Robert Tagliapietra “The JCRT Plaid Library (2017 Edition)”

Book Notes – Victoria Redel “Before Everything”

June 29, 2017

Book Notes – Diksha Basu “The Windfall”

June 19, 2017

Book Notes – Andrew Ervin “Bit by Bit”

Book Notes – Nicholas Bredie “Not Constantinople”

June 16, 2017

Book Notes – Nick White “How to Survive a Summer”

June 15, 2017

Book Notes – Paul Cohen “The Glamshack”

June 14, 2017

Book Notes – Don Lee “Lonesome Lies Before Us”

June 13, 2017

Book Notes – Tom Stern “My Vanishing Twin”

Book Notes – Brontez Purnell “Since I Laid My Burden Down”

June 12, 2017

Book Notes – N. West Moss “The Subway Stops at Bryant Park”

Book Notes – Dave Boling “The Lost History of Stars”

June 9, 2017

Book Notes – Blake Nelson “Boy”

June 8, 2017

Book Notes – Haroon Moghul “How to Be a Muslim”

June 7, 2017

Book Notes – Min Kym “Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung”

Book Notes – Jordan Harper “She Rides Shotgun”

June 6, 2017

Book Notes – Jill Eisenstadt “Swell”

Book Notes – Alan Drew “Shadow Man”

Book Notes – Delia Cabe “Storied Bars of New York”

June 2, 2017

Book Notes – Cosey Fanni Tutti “Art Sex Music”

June 1, 2017

Book Notes – Sarah Moriarty “North Haven”

May 31, 2017

Book Notes – Paul Youngquist “A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism”

Book Notes – Stephanie Powell Watts “No One Is Coming to Save Us”

May 30, 2017

Book Notes – Courtney Maum “Touch”

Book Notes – Val Emmich “The Reminders”

May 26, 2017

Book Notes – Michael Seidlinger “Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves”

May 25, 2017

Book Notes – Brian Jabas Smith “Spent Saints”

May 24, 2017

Book Notes – Emma Smith-Stevens “The Australian”

May 23, 2017

Book Notes – Lizzy Goodman “Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011”

May 22, 2017

Book Notes – Susan Rieger “The Heirs”

Book Notes – Selena Chambers “Calls for Submission”

May 18, 2017

Book Notes – Jessie Chaffee “Florence in Ecstasy”

May 17, 2017

Book Notes – Tommy Pico “Nature Poem”

May 16, 2017

Book Notes – Andrew Roe “Where You Live”

Book Notes – Peter Gajdics “The Inheritance of Shame”

May 15, 2017

Book Notes – B.G. Firmani “Time’s a Thief”

Book Notes – Paula Cocozza “How to Be Human”

May 12, 2017

Book Notes – Leyna Krow “I’m Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking”

May 11, 2017

Book Notes – Robert Repino “D’Arc”

May 10, 2017

Book Notes – Jaime Clarke “F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby”

May 9, 2017

Book Notes – Barbara Browning “The Gift”

Book Notes – Jessie Janeshek “The Shaky Phase”

May 8, 2017

Book Notes – Rakesh Satyal “No One Can Pronounce My Name”

Book Notes – Elanor Dymott “Silver and Salt”

May 5, 2017

Book Notes – Francesca Segal “The Awkward Age”

May 4, 2017

Book Notes – Zoey Leigh Peterson “Next Year, for Sure”

May 3, 2017

Book Notes – Fred Marchant “Said Not Said”

May 2, 2017

Book Notes – Hala Alyan “Salt Houses”

Book Notes – Phil Marcade “Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982”

May 1, 2017

Book Notes – Henry Hoke “Genevieves”

April 28, 2017

Book Notes – Joel Whitney “Finks”

April 27, 2017

Book Notes – Edie Meidav “Kingdom of the Young”

April 26, 2017

Book Notes – Rob Sheffield “Dreaming the Beatles”

April 25, 2017

Book Notes – Taylor Larsen “Stranger, Father, Beloved”

April 24, 2017

Book Notes – Kristen Radtke “Imagine Wanting Only This”

April 20, 2017

Book Notes – Anne Elizabeth Moore “Body Horror”

April 19, 2017

Book Notes – Emma Richler “Be My Wolff”

April 18, 2017

Book Notes – Lidia Yuknavitch “The Book of Joan”

Book Notes – Sara Baume “A Line Made by Walking”

April 17, 2017

Book Notes – Abigail Ulman “Hot Little Hands”

Book Notes – Janet Sarbanes “The Protester Has Been Released”

April 13, 2017

Book Notes – Olivia Sudjic “Sympathy”

April 12, 2017

Book Notes – David Joy “The Weight of This World”

April 11, 2017

Book Notes – Max Winter “Exes”

Book Notes – Alex Segura “Dangerous Ends”

April 10, 2017

Book Notes – William Walsh “Forty-four American Boys”

Book Notes – Andrew Bourelle “Heavy Metal”

April 7, 2017

Book Notes – Kelly Jensen “Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World”

April 6, 2017

Book Notes – Kurt Baumeister “Pax Americana”

April 5, 2017

Book Notes – Bethany Ball “What To Do About The Solomons”

April 4, 2017

Book Notes – Laura McNeal “The Practice House”

April 3, 2017

Book Notes – Lance Olsen “Dreamlives of Debris”

Book Notes – Carol Zoref “Barren Island”

March 31, 2017

Book Notes – David Ebenbach “The Guy We Didn’t Invite to the Orgy”

March 30, 2017

Book Notes – Jonathan Reiss “Getting Off”

March 29, 2017

Book Notes – Deb Olin Unferth “Wait Till You See Me Dance”

March 28, 2017

Book Notes – Hannah Lillith Assadi “Sonora”

March 27, 2017

Book Notes – Patrick Cottrell “Sorry to Disrupt the Peace”

Book Notes – Daniel Jose Ruiz “Coconut Versus”

March 20, 2017

Book Notes – Phillip Lewis “The Barrowfields”

March 17, 2017

Book Notes – Harold Abramowitz “Blind Spot”

March 16, 2017

Book Notes – Felicia C. Sullivan “Follow Me into the Dark”

March 15, 2017

Book Notes – Meg Howrey “The Wanderers”

March 14, 2017

Book Notes – Can Xue “Frontier”

Book Notes – Susan Perabo “The Fall of Lisa Bellow”

March 8, 2017

Book Notes – Paul La Farge “The Night Ocean”

March 7, 2017

Book Notes – Dan Chaon “Ill Will”

Book Notes – Ryan Ruby “The Zero and the One”

March 6, 2017

Book Notes – Rahul Mehta “No Other World”

Book Notes – Joseph Scapellato “Big Lonesome”

March 3, 2017

Book Notes – Bill Hayes “Insomniac City”

March 2, 2017

Book Notes – Deborah Willis “The Dark and Other Love Stories”

March 1, 2017

Book Notes – Rowan Hisayo Buchanan “Harmless Like You”

February 28, 2017

Book Notes – Eleni Sikelianos “Make Yourself Happy”

February 27, 2017

Book Notes – Elena Passarello “Animals Strike Curious Poses”

Book Notes – Susan Defreitas “Hot Season”

February 23, 2017

Book Notes – Kris D’Agostino “The Antiques”

February 22, 2017

Book Notes – Jaimee Wriston Colbert “Wild Things”

February 21, 2017

Book Notes – Cara Hoffman “Running”

Book Notes – Shannon Leone Fowler “Traveling with Ghosts”

February 17, 2017

Book Notes – Bren McClain “One Good Mama Bone”

February 16, 2017

Book Notes – Rachel Aspden “Generation Revolution: On the Front Line Between Tradition and Change in the Middle East”

February 15, 2017

Book Notes – Raoul Martinez “Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth, the Illusion of Consent, and the Fight for Our Future”

February 14, 2017

Book Notes – Shanthi Sekaran “Lucky Boy”

Book Notes – David A. Ensminger “Out of the Basement: From Cheap Trick to DIY Punk in Rockford, IL, 1973-2005”

February 13, 2017

Book Notes – Sari Wilson “Girl Through Glass”

Book Notes – Albert Goldbarth “The Adventures of Form and Content”

February 10, 2017

Book Notes – Scott Crawford “Spoke: Images and Stories from the 1980s Washington, DC Punk Scene”

February 9, 2017

Book Notes – James Rhodes “Instrumental”

Book Notes – Tom McAllister “The Young Widower’s Handbook”

February 7, 2017

Book Notes – Laird Hunt “The Evening Road”

Book Notes – Heather O’Neill “The Lonely Hearts Hotel”

February 6, 2017

Book Notes – Kelcey Parker Ervick “The Bitter Life of Bozena Nemcova”

February 3, 2017

Book Notes – Lydia Peelle “The Midnight Cool”

February 2, 2017

Book Notes – Mary Miller “Always Happy Hour”

February 1, 2017

Book Notes – Steve Himmer “Scratch”

January 31, 2017

Book Notes – Mike Scalise “The Brand New Catastrophe”

January 30, 2017

Book Notes – Ann-Margaret Lim “Kingston Buttercup”

Book Notes – Ken Pisani “Amp’d”

January 26, 2017

Book Notes – Richard Mason “History of a Pleasure Seeker” & “Who Killed Piet Barol?”

January 25, 2017

Book Notes – Andrew Krivak “The Signal Flame”

January 24, 2017

Book Notes – Josh Barkan “Mexico”

Book Notes – Steph Post “Lightwood”

January 20, 2017

Book Notes – Henry Hoke “The Book of Endless Sleepovers”

January 19, 2017

Book Notes – Adelia Saunders “Indelible”

Book Notes – Jim Walsh “Bar Yarns and Manic-Depressive Mixtapes”

January 18, 2017

Book Notes – Jordan A. Rothacker “And Wind Will Wash Away”

January 17, 2017

Book Notes – Kathleen Rooney “Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk”

Book Notes – Jamie Metzl “Eternal Sonata”

January 13, 2017

Book Notes – Joe Halstead “West Virginia”

Book Notes – Laurie Blauner “The Solace of Monsters”

January 11, 2017

Book Notes – Joshua Mohr “Sirens”

January 10, 2017

Book Notes – Madeleine Thien “Do Not Say We Have Nothing”

Book Notes – Woody Woodmansey “Spider from Mars: My Life with Bowie”

January 9, 2017

Book Notes – “Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: New York City’s Forgotten Waterfront”

January 3, 2017

Book Notes – Benjamin Percy “Thrill Me”

December 13, 2016

Book Notes – Kathy Page “The Two of Us”

Book Notes – Sassafras Lowrey “A Little Queermas Carol”

December 2, 2016

Book Notes – Meredith Alling “Sing the Song”

December 1, 2016

Book Notes – Kevin Smokler “Brat Pack America”

November 30, 2016

Book Notes – Marcy Dermansky “The Red Car”

November 29, 2016

Book Notes – Jason Diamond “Searching for John Hughes”

November 22, 2016

Book Notes – Eduardo Rabasa “A Zero-Sum Game”

November 17, 2016

Book Notes – Odie Lindsey “We Come to Our Senses”

November 15, 2016

Book Notes – MB Caschetta “Pretend I’m Your Friend”

Book Notes – Sam Allingham “The Great American Songbook”

November 14, 2016

Book Notes – Derek Palacio “The Mortifications”

Book Notes – Joanna C. Valente “Marys of the Sea”

November 9, 2016

Book Notes – Tobias Carroll “Reel”

November 7, 2016

Book Notes – Rob Cowen “Common Ground”

November 4, 2016

Book Notes – Laurie Stone “My Life as an Animal”

November 2, 2016

Book Notes – J. Bradley “The Adventures of Jesus Christ, Boy Detective”

November 1, 2016

Book Notes – Rich Ferguson “New Jersey Me”

October 31, 2016

Book Notes – Patrick Hoffman “Every Man a Menace”

October 28, 2016

Book Notes – David Lida “One Life”

October 27, 2016

Book Notes – Elisa Gabbert “L’Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems”

October 25, 2016

Book Notes – Rabih Alameddine “The Angel of History”

Book Notes – Clare Beams “We Show What We Have Learned”

October 24, 2016

Book Notes – Courtney Elizabeth Mauk “The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things”

Book Notes – Amy Kurzweil “Flying Couch”

October 21, 2016

Book Notes – Mary Cappello “Life Breaks In”

October 19, 2016

Book Notes – Jane Alison “Nine Island”

Book Notes – Stephanie Gangi “The Next”

October 18, 2016

Book Notes – Belle Boggs “The Art of Waiting”

Book Notes – Diana Wagman “Extraordinary October”

October 17, 2016

Book Notes – Anne Raeff “The Jungle Around Us”

October 14, 2016

Book Notes – Kait Heacock “Siblings and Other Disappointments”

October 13, 2016

Book Notes – Melissa Yancy “Dog Years”

October 12, 2016

Book Notes – Liza Monroy “Seeing As Your Shoes Are Soon to be on Fire”

October 11, 2016

Book Notes – Randa Jarrar “Him, Me, Muhammad Ali”

October 10, 2016

Book Notes – Chloe Caldwell “I’ll Tell You in Person”

October 7, 2016

Book Notes – Caroline Leavitt “Cruel Beautiful World”

September 27, 2016

Book Notes – Ben Katchor “Cheap Novelties”

Book Notes – Steve Toutonghi “Join”

September 26, 2016

Book Notes – Christine Sneed “The Virginity of Famous Men”

September 24, 2016

Book Notes – Tobias Carroll “Transitory”

September 22, 2016

Book Notes – Kathleen Rooney “René Magritte: Selected Writings”

September 20, 2016

Book Notes – Brendan Kiely “The Last True Love Story”

Book Notes – Ishion Hutchinson “House of Lords and Commons”

September 19, 2016

Book Notes – James Boice “The Shooting”

Book Notes – William Luvaas “Beneath the Coyote Hills”

September 16, 2016

Book Notes – Laia Jufresa “Umami”

September 15, 2016

Book Notes – Melanie Finn “The Gloaming”

September 14, 2016

Book Notes – Gina Frangello “Every Kind of Wanting”

September 13, 2016

Book Notes – Michelle Tea “Black Wave”

Book Notes – Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes “The Sleeping World”

September 9, 2016

Book Notes – Neil Steinberg “Out of the Wreck I Rise”

September 7, 2016

Book Notes – Affinity Konar “Mischling”

Book Notes – Alexander Boldizar “The Ugly”

September 6, 2016

Book Notes – Peter Ho Davies “The Fortunes”

Book Notes – Kendra DeColo “My Dinner with Ron Jeremy”

September 1, 2016

Book Notes – Hannah Gersen “Home Field”

August 31, 2016

Book Notes – Tama Janowitz “Scream”

Book Notes – “Mississippi Noir”

August 30, 2016

Book Notes – Kirstin Allio “Clothed, Female Figure”

Book Notes – Brin-Jonathan Butler “The Domino Diaries”

August 29, 2016

Book Notes – Michael J. Seidlinger “Falter Kingdom”

Book Notes – Jessica Anya Blau “The Trouble with Lexie”

August 26, 2016

Book Notes – Ben Tanzer “Be Cool”

August 25, 2016

Book Notes – Gonzalo Torné “Divorce Is in the Air”

August 24, 2016

Book Notes – Nina Stibbe “Paradise Lodge”

Book Notes – Louisa Ermelino “Malafemmena”

August 23, 2016

Book Notes – Imbolo Mbue “Behold the Dreamers”

Book Notes – Ryan Berg “No House to Call My Home”

August 22, 2016

Book Notes – Jennifer Keishin Armstrong “Seinfeldia”

Book Notes – Joe Milazzo “Crepuscule W/Nellie”

August 19, 2016

Book Notes – Anne Korkeakivi “Shining Sea”

Book Notes – Patrick Ryan “The Dream Life of Astronauts”

August 17, 2016

Book Notes – Jen Michalski “The Summer She Was Under Water”

August 16, 2016

Book Notes – Forrest Leo “The Gentleman”

Book Notes – Angela Palm “Riverine”

August 15, 2016

Book Notes – Teju Cole “Known and Strange Things”

Book Notes – Rion Amilcar Scott “Insurrections”

August 12, 2016

Book Notes – Keegan Jennings Goodman “The Tennessee Highway Death Chant”

Book Notes – R.J. Fox “Love & Vodka”

August 11, 2016

Book Notes – Magnus Mills “The Field of the Cloth of Gold”

August 10, 2016

Book Notes – Annie DeWitt “White Nights in Split Town City”

August 9, 2016

Book Notes – Scott Stambach “The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko”

Book Notes – Laura McHugh “Arrowood”

August 8, 2016

Book Notes – Brad Watson “Miss Jane”

Book Notes – Rae Meadows “I Will Send Rain”

August 5, 2016

Book Notes – Tim Murphy “Christodora”

August 4, 2016

Book Notes – Robin MacArthur “Half Wild”

August 3, 2016

Book Notes – Ali Shaw “The Trees”

Book Notes – David Rivard “Standoff”

August 2, 2016

Book Notes – Roy Scranton “War Porn”

Book Notes – Franz Nicolay “The Humorless Ladies of Border Control”

August 1, 2016

Book Notes – Kodi Scheer “Midair”

Book Notes – Ben Greenman “Emotional Rescue”

July 29, 2016

Book Notes – Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan “Sarong Party Girls”

July 27, 2016

Book Notes – Kelly Schirmann “Popular Music”

Book Notes – Gina Ochsner “The Hidden Letters of Velta B.”

July 21, 2016

Book Notes – Martin Seay “The Mirror Thief”

July 20, 2016

Book Notes – Matthew Cheney “Blood”

July 19, 2016

Book Notes – Jenni Fagan “The Sunlight Pilgrims”

Book Notes – Maggie O’Farrell “This Must Be the Place”

July 18, 2016

Book Notes – Josh Fomon “Though We Bled Meticulously”

July 14, 2016

Book Notes – Jennifer Spiegel and Paul Fuhr “Dead Inside”

July 13, 2016

Book Notes – Michael Homolka “Antiquity”

July 12, 2016

Book Notes – Maryse Meijer “Heartbreaker”

Book Notes – Caroline Angell “All the Time in the World”

July 11, 2016

Book Notes – John Domini “Movieola!”

Book Notes – Tara Altebrando “The Leaving”

July 8, 2016

Book Notes – Rikki Ducornet “Brightfellow”

Book Notes – Christopher Hebert “Angels of Detroit”

July 6, 2016

Book Notes – Christopher Bram “The Art of History”

July 5, 2016

Book Notes – Jade Sharma “Problems”

Book Notes – Hannah Pittard “Listen to Me”

July 1, 2016

Book Notes – Daniel Nester “Shader”

June 30, 2016

Book Notes – Ramona Ausubel “Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty”

June 29, 2016

Book Notes – Jeremy P. Bushnell “The Insides”

Book Notes – Anthony Michael Morena “The Voyager Record”

June 28, 2016

Book Notes – Alice Adams “Invincible Summer”

Book Notes – Deborah Shapiro “The Sun in Your Eyes”

June 27, 2016

Book Notes – Robert H. Patton “Cajun Waltz”

Book Notes – Richard Hawley “The Three Lives Of Jonathan Force”

June 23, 2016

Book Notes – Drew Nellins Smith “Arcade”

June 22, 2016

Book Notes – Robin Black “Crash Course”

Book Notes – Monica Drake “The Folly of Loving Life”

June 21, 2016

Book Notes – Flynn Berry “Under the Harrow”

Book Notes – Matthew Norman “We’re All Damaged”

June 20, 2016

Book Notes – Anna Noyes “Goodnight, Beautiful Women”

June 17, 2016

Book Notes – Ellen Wayland-Smith “Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table”

June 16, 2016

Book Notes – Lisa Moore “Flannery”

June 15, 2016

Book Notes – Karl Jacoby “The Strange Career of William Ellis”

June 14, 2016

Book Notes – Frederick Reuss “Maisie at 8000 Feet”

Book Notes – Dave Hill “Dave Hill Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”

June 13, 2016

Book Notes – Mark Binelli “Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ All-Time Greatest Hits”

Book Notes – Dave Fromm “The Duration”

June 10, 2016

Book Notes – Laura Ellen Scott “The Juliet”

June 9, 2016

Book Notes – Troy James Weaver “Marigold”

June 8, 2016

Book Notes – Chris McCormick “Desert Boys”

Book Notes – Michael Landweber “Thursday, 1:17 p.m.”

June 7, 2016

Book Notes – Alexis M. Smith “Marrow Island”

Book Notes – Daniel Saldaña París “Among Strange Victims”

June 6, 2016

Book Notes – Max Porter “Grief Is the Thing with Feathers”

Book Notes – Katie Chase “Man & Wife”

June 3, 2016

Book Notes – Garrard Conley “Boy Erased”

June 2, 2016

Book Notes – Jean Thompson “She Poured Out Her Heart”

June 1, 2016

Book Notes – Juliet Escoria “Witch Hunt”

Book Notes – Gretchen Marquette “May Day”

May 31, 2016

Book Notes – Claudia Casper “The Mercy Journals”

Book Notes – Nick Seeley “Cambodia Noir”

May 27, 2016

Book Notes – Hirsh Sawhney “South Haven”

May 26, 2016

Book Notes – Juan Gómez Bárcena “The Sky Over Lima”

May 25, 2016

Book Notes – Jensen Beach “Swallowed by the Cold”

Book Notes – Sean Carswell “The Metaphysical Ukulele”

May 24, 2016

Book Notes – Manuel Gonzales “The Regional Office is Under Attack!”

Book Notes – Lindsay Tigue “System of Ghosts”

May 23, 2016

Book Notes – Melissa Broder “So Sad Today”

Book Notes – Jillian Keenan “Sex with Shakespeare”

Book Notes – Scott Esposito “The Surrender”

May 20, 2016

Movie Notes – Nicholas Rombes “The Removals”

May 19, 2016

Book Notes – Buzz Poole “Grateful Dead’s Workingman’s Dead”

May 18, 2016

Book Notes – Lauren Belfer “And After the Fire”

Book Notes – Matthew Binder “High in the Streets”

May 17, 2016

Book Notes – Robin Wasserman “Girls on Fire”

Book Notes – Angela Woodward “Natural Wonders”

May 16, 2016

Book Notes – Laura Barnett “The Versions of Us”

Book Notes – Paula Whyman “You May See a Stranger”

May 13, 2016

Book Notes – M. Thomas Gammarino “King of the Worlds”

May 12, 2016

Book Notes – Camille Perri “The Assistants”

May 11, 2016

Book Notes – Matthew Neill Null “Allegheny Front”

Book Notes – Michelle Latiolais “She”

May 10, 2016

Book Notes – Lynn Steger Strong “Hold Still”

Book Notes – “Watchlist”

May 9, 2016

Book Notes – Benjamin Wood “The Ecliptic”

Book Notes – Linda Kass “Tasa’s Song”

May 6, 2016

Book Notes – Geoff Dyer “White Sands”

May 5, 2016

Book Notes – Dylan Hicks “Amateurs”

May 4, 2016

Book Notes – Raja Alem “The Dove’s Necklace”

Book Notes – Amanda Nadelberg “Songs from a Mountain”

May 3, 2016

Book Notes – Patricia Engel “The Veins of the Ocean”

Book Notes – Anna Smaill “The Chimes”

Book Notes – Alyson Foster “Heart Attack Watch”

May 2, 2016

Book Notes – Lydia Millet “Sweet Lamb of Heaven”

Book Notes – Amy Parker “Beasts and Children”

April 29, 2016

Book Notes – Molly Prentiss “Tuesday Nights in 1980”

April 28, 2016

Book Notes – Colleen M. Story “Loreena’s Gift”

April 27, 2016

Book Notes – Brian Blanchfield “Proxies”

April 26, 2016

Book Notes – Shawn Vestal “Daredevils”

Book Notes – Nick Soulsby “Cobain on Cobain: Interviews and Encounters”

April 25, 2016

Book Notes – Justin Tussing “Vexation Lullaby”

Book Notes – Christine Reilly “Sunday’s on the Phone to Monday”

April 22, 2016

Book Notes – Domnica Radulescu “Country of Red Azaleas”

April 21, 2016

Book Notes – Jeff Zentner “The Serpent King”

April 20, 2016

Book Notes – Dominic Smith “The Last Painting of Sara de Vos”

Book Notes – Alex Segura “Down the Darkest Street”

April 19, 2016

Book Notes – Jonathan Levi “Septimania”

Book Notes – Curtis Smith “Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five: Bookmarked”

April 18, 2016

Book Notes – Michelle de Kretser “Springtime”

April 15, 2016

Book Notes – Melissa Ginsburg “Sunset City”

April 14, 2016

Book Notes – Greg Vandy “26 Songs in 30 Days: Woody Guthrie’s Columbia River Songs and the Planned Promised Land in the Pacific Northwest”

April 13, 2016

Book Notes – Leah Umansky “Straight Away the Emptied World”

April 12, 2016

Book Notes – Joni Murphy “Double Teenage”

Book Notes – Amelia Martens “The Spoons in the Grass Are There to Dig a Moat”

April 11, 2016

Book Notes – Augusten Burroughs “Lust & Wonder”

Book Notes – Virginia Reeves “Work Like Any Other”

April 8, 2016

Book Notes – Jordan Zandi “Solarium”

April 7, 2016

Book Notes – Charles Bock “Alice & Oliver”

April 6, 2016

Book Notes – Stephen O’Connor “Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings”

April 5, 2016

Book Notes – David Unger “The Mastermind”

Book Notes – Mark Beaver “Suburban Gospel”

April 4, 2016

Book Notes – Cote Smith “Hurt People”

Book Notes – Barney Hoskyns “Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock”

March 31, 2016

Book Notes – Rob Spillman “All Tomorrow’s Parties”

March 30, 2016

Book Notes – Chris Bachelder and Matt Weiland “The Throwback Special”

Book Notes – Mona Awad “13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl”

March 29, 2016

Book Notes – Kelly Kerney “Hard Red Spring”

March 28, 2016

Book Notes – Mark de Silva “Square Wave”

Book Notes – Ashley Warlick “The Arrangement”

March 25, 2016

Book Notes – John Koethe “The Swimmer”

March 24, 2016

Book Notes – Matt Gallagher “Youngblood”

March 23, 2016

Book Notes – Jack Pendarvis “Movie Stars”

March 22, 2016

Book Notes – Githa Hariharan “Almost Home”

Book Notes – Tash Aw “The Face: Strangers on a Pier”

March 21, 2016

Book Notes – John Jodzio “Knockout”

Book Notes – Andrew F. Sullivan “Waste”

March 18, 2016

Book Notes – Hannah Tennant-Moore “Wreck and Order”

March 17, 2016

Book Notes – Carlos Velázquez “The Cowboy Bible”

March 16, 2016

Book Notes – Jane Mendelsohn “Burning Down the House”

Book Notes – Andromeda Romano-Lax “Behave”

March 15, 2016

Book Notes – Danielle Dutton “Margaret the First”

Book Notes – John D’Agata “The Making of the American Essay”

March 14, 2016

Book Notes – David Hopson “All the Lasting Things”

Book Notes – Joe Wilkins “When We Were Birds”

March 11, 2016

Book Notes – Mark L. Tompkins “The Last Days of Magic”

March 10, 2016

Book Notes – Garfield Ellis “The Angels’ Share”

March 9, 2016

Book Notes – Suzanne Berne “The Dogs of Littlefield”

Book Notes – “Flashed: Sudden Stories in Comics and Prose”

March 8, 2016

Book Notes – Sara Baume “Spill Simmer Falter Wither”

Book Notes – Jonathan Lee “High Dive”

March 7, 2016

Book Notes – Andy Mozina “Contrary Motion”

Book Notes – Nathan Larson “Stockholm Noir”

March 4, 2016

Book Notes – Sean Beaudoin “Welcome Thieves”

March 3, 2016

Book Notes – A. Igoni Barrett “Blackass”

March 2, 2016

Book Notes – Beth Hahn “The Singing Bone”

March 1, 2016

Book Notes – Michelle Hoover “Bottomland”

Book Notes – Julie Smith “New Orleans Noir: The Classics”

February 29, 2016

Book Notes – Álvaro Enrigue “Sudden Death”

Book Notes – Taylor Brown “Fallen Land”

February 26, 2016

Book Notes – Belinda McKeon “Tender”

Book Notes – Gregory Howard “Hospice”

February 25, 2016

Book Notes – Keith Lee Morris “Travelers Rest”

February 24, 2016

Book Notes – J. J. Anselmi “Heavy”

February 23, 2016

Book Notes – Shawna Yang Ryan “Green Island”

Book Notes – Ian Brennan “How Music Dies (or Lives)”

February 22, 2016

Book Notes – Idra Novey “Ways to Disappear”

February 19, 2016

Book Notes – Mo Daviau “Every Anxious Wave”

February 18, 2016

Book Notes – Patrick Dacey “We’ve Already Gone This Far”

February 17, 2016

Book Notes – Matthew Griffin “Hide”

February 16, 2016

Book Notes – Kristopher Jansma “Why We Came to the City”

Book Notes – Matt Rodbard “Koreatown”

February 15, 2016

Book Notes – Terese Svoboda “Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet”

Book Notes – Kevin Hardcastle “Debris”

February 12, 2016

Book Notes – Kathy Page “Frankie Styne and the Silver Man”

February 11, 2016

Book Notes – Jarett Kobek “I Hate the Internet”

February 10, 2016

Book Notes – Tony Tulathimutte “Private Citizens”

February 9, 2016

Book Notes – Amy Gustine “You Should Pity Us Instead”

Book Notes – Rob Roberge “Liar”

February 8, 2016

Book Notes – Paul Goldberg “The Yid”

Book Notes – Ada Calhoun “St. Marks Is Dead”

February 5, 2016

Book Notes – Kathleen Spivack “Unspeakable Things”

February 4, 2016

Book Notes – B.J. Hollars “This Is Only a Test”

February 3, 2016

Book Notes – Paula Bohince “Swallows and Waves”

February 2, 2016

Book Notes – Paul Lisicky “The Narrow Door”

Book Notes – Richard Fifield “The Flood Girls”

February 1, 2016

Book Notes – Ryan Gattis “All Involved”

Book Notes – Genanne Walsh “Twister”

January 29, 2016

Book Notes – Aaron Gilbreath “This Is: Essays on Jazz”

January 28, 2016

Book Notes – Ed Tarkington “Only Love Can Break Your Heart”

January 27, 2016

Book Notes – Rachel Cantor “Good on Paper”

Book Notes – Amber Sparks “The Unfinished World”

January 26, 2016

Book Notes – Diane Williams “Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine”

Book Notes – W.B. Belcher “Lay Down Your Weary Tune”

January 25, 2016

Book Notes – Jeff Wood “The Glacier”

January 22, 2016

Book Notes – Bud Smith “F 250”

January 21, 2016

Book Notes – Stuart Evers “Your Father Sends His Love”

January 20, 2016

Book Notes – Garth Greenwell “What Belongs to You”

Book Notes – Berit Ellingsen “Not Dark Yet”

January 19, 2016

Book Notes – Elizabeth Mckenzie “The Portable Veblen”

Book Notes – Troy James Weaver “Witchita Stories”

January 14, 2016

Book Notes – Omar Musa “Here Come the Dogs”

Book Notes – Jón Gnarr “The Pirate”

January 12, 2016

Book Notes – Mira Ptacin “Poor Your Soul”

January 11, 2016

Book Notes – John Samuel “What I Tell You In the Dark”

January 6, 2016

Book Notes – Samantha Hunt “Mr. Splitfoot”

January 5, 2016

Book Notes – Christopher Castellani “The Art of Perspective”

January 4, 2016

Book Notes – Deanna Fei “Girl in Glass”

December 18, 2015

Book Notes – John McManus “Fox Tooth Heart”

December 16, 2015

Book Notes – Noy Holland “Bird”

December 15, 2015

Book Notes – Tom Piazza “A Free State”

December 9, 2015

Book Notes – Marc Weingarten “Thirsty”

December 8, 2015

Book Notes – Leena Krohn “Collected Fiction”

December 3, 2015

Book Notes – Kathy Flann “Get a Grip”

December 2, 2015

Book Notes – Molly Crabapple “Drawing Blood”

December 1, 2015

Book Notes – Dana Chamblee Carpenter “Bohemian Gospel”

November 30, 2015

Book Notes – Audrey Niffenegger “Ghostly”

Book Notes – Russell Quinn “The Pickle Index”

November 24, 2015

Book Notes – Ryan Britt “Luke Skywalker Can’t Read”

November 23, 2015

Book Notes – Jillian Cantor “The Hours Count”

Book Notes – James Tate Hill “Academy Gothic”

November 20, 2015

Book Notes – Jennifer Miller “The Heart You Carry Home”

November 19, 2015

Book Notes – Joseph Skibell “My Father’s Guitar and Other Imaginary Things”

November 18, 2015

Book Notes – Chrissy Kolaya “Charmed Particles”

November 17, 2015

Book Notes – Margaret Malone “People Like You”

November 16, 2015

Book Notes – Matthew Gavin Frank “The Mad Feast”

Book Notes – Summer Brennan “The Oyster War”

November 13, 2015

Book Notes – Dave Reidy “The Voiceover Artist”

November 12, 2015

Book Notes – Toni Sala “The Boys”

November 11, 2015

Book Notes – George Singleton “Calloustown”

November 10, 2015

Book Notes – Scott Nadelson “Between You and Me”

Book Notes – Tod Davies “The Lizard Princess”

November 9, 2015

Book Notes – Selah Saterstrom “Slab”

Book Notes – Marcela Sulak and Jacqueline Kolosov “Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres”

November 6, 2015

Book Notes – Freda Love Smith “Red Velvet Underground”

November 5, 2015

Book Notes – Andrew DeGraff “Plotted: A Literary Atlas”

November 4, 2015

Book Notes – Steve Knopper “MJ: The Genius of Michael Jackson”

November 3, 2015

Book Notes – Bruce Bauman “Broken Sleep”

November 2, 2015

Book Notes – Sloane Crosley “The Clasp”

Book Notes – Marcus O’Dair “Different Every Time: The Authorized Biography of Robert Wyatt”

October 30, 2015

Book Notes – Laurie Foos “The Blue Girl”

October 29, 2015

Book Notes – William Rook “Equinox Society”

October 28, 2015

Book Notes – Kate Gavino “Last Night’s Reading”

October 27, 2015

Book Notes – Jessa Crispin “The Dead Ladies Project”

October 26, 2015

Book Notes – Nikesh Shukla “Meatspace”

Book Notes – Matthew Vollmer “Gateway to Paradise”

October 23, 2015

Book Notes – Aidan Levy “Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed”

October 22, 2015

Book Notes – David Winner “Tyler’s Last”

October 21, 2015

Book Notes – Vanessa Blakeslee “Juventud”

Book Notes – Barry Moser “We Were Brothers”

October 20, 2015

Book Notes – Yvonne Prinz “If You’re Lucky”

October 19, 2015

Book Notes – Richard Grant “Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta”

Book Notes – Michael Ruhlman “In Short Measures”

October 16, 2015

Book Notes – Garth Risk Hallberg “City on Fire”

October 15, 2015

Book Notes – Michael J. Seidlinger “The Strangest”

October 14, 2015

Book Notes – Gavin McCrea “Mrs. Engels”

October 13, 2015

Book Notes – David Hinton “I Ching”

Book Notes – Alex Flynn “The Misshapes: Annihilation Day”

October 12, 2015

Book Notes – Lincoln Michel “Upright Beasts”

Book Notes – Scott Blackwood “See How Small”

October 9, 2015

Book Notes – Anthony Marra “The Tsar of Love and Techno”

Book Notes – Patrick Wensink “Fake Fruit Factory”

October 8, 2015

Book Notes – Bonnie Jo Campbell “Mothers, Tell Your Daughters”

October 7, 2015

Book Notes – Diane Cook “Man V. Nature”

October 6, 2015

Book Notes – Zachary Thomas Dodson “Bats of the Republic”

October 5, 2015

Book Notes – Lori Ostlund “After the Parade”

October 2, 2015

Book Notes – David Menconi “Comin’ Right at Ya”

October 1, 2015

Book Notes – Debra Monroe “My Unsentimental Education”

September 30, 2015

Book Notes – Lenore Myka “King of the Gypsies”

September 29, 2015

Book Notes – William Boyd “Sweet Caress”

September 28, 2015

Book Notes – Matt Bell “Scrapper”

Book Notes – Nina de Gramont “The Last September”

September 25, 2015

Book Notes – Samuel Sattin “The Silent End”

Book Notes – Mairead Case “See You In the Morning”

September 24, 2015

Book Notes – Joshua Clover, Jasper Bernes, and Juliana Spahr (Commune Editions)

September 23, 2015

Book Notes – Andrew Malan Milward “I Was a Revolutionary”

September 22, 2015

Book Notes – Daniel Makagon “Underground: The Subterranean Culture of Punk House Shows”

September 21, 2015

Book Notes – Carmiel Banasky “The Suicide of Claire Bishop”

Book Notes – Elise Blackwell “The Lower Quarter”

September 18, 2015

Book Notes – Steve Toltz “Quicksand”

September 16, 2015

Book Notes – H. S. Cross “Wilberforce”

September 15, 2015

Book Notes – Robert Kloss “The Revelator”

Book Notes – Sandra Beasley “Count the Waves”

September 14, 2015

Book Notes – Padgett Powell “Cries for Help, Various”

Book Notes – Bryan Hurt “Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France”

September 11, 2015

Book Notes – Andrew Wilson “Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin”

Book Notes – Aspen Matis “Girl in the Woods”

Book Notes – Margaret Eby “South Toward Home”

September 9, 2015

Book Notes – Lauren Groff “Fates and Furies”

September 8, 2015

Book Notes – Joe Meno “Marvel and a Wonder”

September 3, 2015

Book Notes – Matthew Salesses “The Hundred-Year Flood”

September 2, 2015

Book Notes – Sara Jaffe “Dryland”

September 1, 2015

Book Notes – Colin Channer “Providential”

Book Notes – Amy Stewart “Girl Waits with Gun”

August 31, 2015

Book Notes – Joe Meno “Chicago Noir: The Classics”

Book Notes – Rosie Forrest “Ghost Box Evolution in Cadillac, Michigan”

August 28, 2015

Book Notes – Michael Dirda “Browsings”

August 27, 2015

Book Notes – Cara Nicoletti “Voracious”

August 26, 2015

Book Notes – Robert Goolrick “The Fall of Princes”

August 25, 2015

Book Notes – Brandon Hobson “Desolation of Avenues Untold”

Book Notes – Jamie Iredell “Last Mass”

August 24, 2015

Book Notes – Anna Badkhen “Walking with Abel”

Book Notes – Russell Smith “Confidence”

August 21, 2015

Book Notes – Tanwi Nandini Islam “Bright Lines”

August 20, 2015

Book Notes – Rajia Hassib “In the Language of Miracles”

August 19, 2015

Book Notes – Val Brelinski “The Girl Who Slept with God”

August 18, 2015

Book Notes – Ottessa Moshfegh “Eileen”

Book Notes – Susan Barker “The Incarnations”

August 17, 2015

Book Notes – Myriam Gurba “Painting Their Portraits in Winter”

August 13, 2015

Book Notes – Ben Brooks “Lolito”

August 12, 2015

Book Notes – Helen Phillips “The Beautiful Bureaucrat”

August 11, 2015

Book Notes – Wendy S. Walters “Multiply/Divide”

Book Notes – Stephen Witt “How Music Got Free”

August 10, 2015

Book Notes – Jessamyn Hope “Safekeeping”

Book Notes – Greg Shemkovitz “Lot Boy”

August 7, 2015

Book Notes – Jesse Browner “How Did I Get Here?”

August 6, 2015

Book Notes – Dean Bakopoulos “Summerlong”

August 5, 2015

Book Notes – Jesse Ball “A Cure for Suicide”

August 4, 2015

Book Notes – Gabriel Urza “All That Followed”

Book Notes – Jonathan Weisman “No. 4 Imperial Lane”

August 3, 2015

Book Notes – Vu Tran “Dragonfish”

Book Notes – Chad Kultgen “Strange Animals”

July 31, 2015

Book Notes – Deborah Reed “Olivay”

July 30, 2015

Book Notes – Jordan Harper “Love and Other Wounds”

July 29, 2015

Book Notes – Kent Wascom “Secessia”

July 28, 2015

Book Notes – Christy Wampole “The Other Serious”

July 27, 2015

Book Notes – Emily Mitchell “Viral”

Book Notes – Sophie McManus “The Unfortunates”

July 24, 2015

Book Notes – Annie Liontas “Let Me Explain You”

July 23, 2015

Book Notes – Kate Schatz “Rad American Women A-Z”

July 22, 2015

Book Notes – Dale Marlowe “Digging Up The Bones”

July 21, 2015

Book Notes – Jill Talbot “The Way We Weren’t”

Book Notes – Polly Samson “The Kindness”

July 20, 2015

Book Notes – Louisa Hall “Speak”

Book Notes – Lisa Unger “Crazy Love You”

July 17, 2015

Book Notes – Karim Dimechkie “Lifted by the Great Nothing”

July 16, 2015

Book Notes – Tracy O’Neill “The Hopeful”

July 15, 2015

Book Notes – Liana Maeby “South on Highland”

July 14, 2015

Book Notes – Maggie Mitchell “Pretty Is”

Book Notes – Ann Hood “Providence Noir”

July 13, 2015

Book Notes – Julia Pierpont “Among the Ten Thousand Things”

Book Notes – Carolina De Robertis “The Gods of Tango”

July 10, 2015

Book Notes – Patrick O’Neil “Gun, Needle, Spoon”

July 9, 2015

Book Notes – Karolina Waclawiak “The Invaders”

July 8, 2015

Book Notes – Kris Dinnison “You and Me and Him”

Book Notes – Brian Panowich “Bull Mountain”

July 6, 2015

Book Notes – Quintan Ana Wikswo “The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far”

Book Notes – Maria Dahvana Headley “Magonia”

July 3, 2015

Book Notes – Sarah McCoy “The Mapmaker’s Children”

July 2, 2015

Book Notes – Rebecca Makkai “Music for Wartime”

July 1, 2015

Book Notes – Joshua Mehigan “Accepting the Disaster”

June 30, 2015

Book Notes – Bill Hillmann “Mozos”

June 29, 2015

Book Notes – Wendy C. Ortiz “Hollywood Notebook”

Book Notes – Jonathan Papernick “The Book of Stone”

June 26, 2015

Book Notes – Laura Dave “Eight Hundred Grapes”

Book Notes – Christian McEwen “Sparks from the Anvil: The Smith College Poetry Interviews”

June 24, 2015

Book Notes – Jonathan Galassi “Muse”

June 22, 2015

Book Notes – Ben Tanzer “The New York Stories”

Book Notes – Ethan Nichtern “The Road Home”

June 19, 2015

Book Notes – Jillian Lauren “Everything You Ever Wanted”

June 18, 2015

Book Notes – Jesse Goolsby “I’d Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them”

June 17, 2015

Book Notes – Ayize Jama-Everett “The Liminal War”

June 16, 2015

Book Notes – Etgar Keret “The Seven Good Years”

June 15, 2015

Book Notes – Christian Kiefer “The Animals”

Book Notes – David Browne “So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead”

June 12, 2015

Book Notes – Christine Sneed “Paris, He Said”

June 11, 2015

Book Notes – Aleksandar Hemon “The Making of Zombie Wars Wine”

June 10, 2015

Book Notes – Tod Wodicka “The Household Spirit”

June 9, 2015

Book Notes – Katherine Taylor “Valley Fever”

June 8, 2015

Book Notes – Lucas Mann “Lord Fear”

Book Notes – DW Gibson “The Edge Becomes the Center”

June 5, 2015

Book Notes – Joshua Braff “The Daddy Diaries”

June 4, 2015

Book Notes – Lisa Glatt “The Nakeds”

June 3, 2015

Book Notes – Paul Tremblay “A Head Full of Ghosts”

June 2, 2015

Book Notes – Colin Winnette “Haints Stay”

June 1, 2015

Book Notes – Michelle Tea “Girl at the Bottom of the Sea”

Book Notes – Sean Egan “Bowie on Bowie”

May 29, 2015

Book Notes – Kate Lebo “Pie School: Lessons in Fruit, Flour & Butter”

May 28, 2015

Book Notes – Kathleen Ossip “The Do-Over”

May 27, 2015

Book Notes – Gallagher Lawson “The Paper Man”

May 26, 2015

Book Notes – Litsa Dremousis “Altitude Sickness”

May 25, 2015

Book Notes – Gregory Crosby “Spooky Action at a Distance”

May 22, 2015

Book Notes – Andrew Ervin & Steph Opitz “Burning Down George Orwell’s House”

May 21, 2015

Book Notes – Margaret Lazarus Dean “Leaving Orbit”

May 20, 2015

Book Notes – Anna North “The Life and Death of Sophie Stark”

May 19, 2015

Book Notes – Kirsty Logan “The Gracekeepers”

May 18, 2015

Book Notes – Catie Disabato “The Ghost Network”

Book Notes – Neil Smith “Boo”

May 15, 2015

Book Notes – Laline Paull “The Bees”

May 14, 2015

Book Notes – Ben Snakepit “Snake Pit Gets Old”

May 13, 2015

Book Notes – Shya Scanlon “The Guild of Saint Cooper”

May 12, 2015

Book Notes – Sara Nović “Girl at War”

May 11, 2015

Book Notes – Lauren Acampora “The Wonder Garden”

Book Notes – Casey Gray “Discount”

May 8, 2015

Book Notes – Jaime Clarke “World Gone Water”

May 7, 2015

Book Notes – Chris Cander “Whisper Hollow”

May 6, 2015

Book Notes – Leslie Parry “Church of Marvels”

May 4, 2015

Book Notes – Nina MacLaughlin “Hammer Head”

Book Notes – Tim A. Ryan “Yoknapatawpha Blues: Faulkner’s Fiction and Southern Roots Music”

May 1, 2015

Book Notes – Sebastian Barry “The Temporary Gentleman”

April 30, 2015

Book Notes – Mallory Kasdan “Ella”

April 28, 2015

Book Notes – Christie Watson “Where Women are Kings”

April 27, 2015

Book Notes – Hermione Eyre “Viper Wine”

Book Notes – Ryan Chapman “Conversation Sparks”

April 24, 2015

Book Notes – Aline Ohanesian “Orhan’s Inheritance”

April 23, 2015

Book Notes – Matt Sumell “Making Nice”

April 22, 2015

Book Notes – Emily Schultz “The Blondes”

April 21, 2015

Book Notes – Andrew Roe “The Miracle Girl”

April 20, 2015

Book Notes – Jeffrey Rotter “The Only Words That Are Worth Remembering”

Book Notes – Nick Courage “The Loudness”

April 17, 2015

Book Notes – Sassafras Lowrey “Lost Boi”

April 16, 2015

Book Notes – Marian Palaia “The Given World”

April 15, 2015

Book Notes – Janaka Stucky “The Truth Is We Are Perfect”

April 14, 2015

Book Notes – Andre Alexis “Fifteen Dogs”

April 13, 2015

Book Notes – Sarah Layden “Trip Through Your Wires”

Book Notes – Lindsey Palmer “If We Lived Here”

April 10, 2015

Book Notes – Kent Russell “I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son”

April 9, 2015

Book Notes – J.C. Hallman “B & Me”

April 8, 2015

Book Notes – Lily Brooks-Dalton “Motorcycles I’ve Loved”

April 7, 2015

Book Notes – Lizzie Skurnick “That Should Be a Word”

April 6, 2015

Book Notes – James Hannaham “Delicious Foods”

Book Notes – David Kishik “The Manhattan Project: A Theory of a City”

April 3, 2015

Book Notes – Jim Ruland “Forest of Fortune”

Book Notes – Alice B. Fogel “Interval: Poems Based On Bach’s ‘Goldberg Variations'”

April 2, 2015

Book Notes – Edward White “The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America”

March 31, 2015

Book Notes – T.C. Boyle “The Harder They Come”

March 30, 2015

Book Notes – Dale Herd “Empty Pockets”

Book Notes – Todd Hasak-Lowy “Me Being Me Is Exactly as Insane as You Being You”

March 27, 2015

Book Notes – Skip Horack “The Other Joseph”

Book Notes – Rebecca Scherm “Unbecoming”

March 26, 2015

Book Notes – Carola Dibbell “The Only Ones”

March 25, 2015

Book Notes – John Renehan “The Valley”

March 24, 2015

Book Notes – Nicole Haroutunian “Speed Dreaming”

March 23, 2015

Book Notes – William Boyle “Death Don’t Have No Mercy”

March 20, 2015

Book Notes – James Grissom “Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog”

March 19, 2015

Book Notes – Mark Kurlansky “City Beasts”

March 18, 2015

Book Notes – Claire Fuller “Our Endless Numbered Days”

March 17, 2015

Book Notes – Alan Cheuse “Prayers for the Living”

March 16, 2015

Book Notes – Tania James “The Tusk That Did the Damage”

Book Notes – Roger White “The Contemporaries: Travels in the 21st-Century Art World”

March 13, 2015

Book Notes – Eddie Joyce “Small Mercies”

March 12, 2015

Book Notes – Richard Lange “Sweet Nothing”

March 11, 2015

Book Notes – Jeremy Hawkins “The Last Days of Video”

Book Notes – Nicelle Davis and Cheryl Gross “In the Circus of You”

March 9, 2015

Book Notes – Quan Barry “She Weeps Each Time You’re Born” and “Loose Strife”

Book Notes – David Arnold “Mosquitoland”

March 6, 2015

Book Notes – Lynn Sloan “Principles of Navigation”

March 5, 2015

Book Notes – Timothy S. Lane “Rules for Becoming a Legend”

March 4, 2015

Book Notes – Kevin Brockmeier “A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip”

March 3, 2015

Book Notes – David Joy “Where All Light Tends to Go”

March 2, 2015

Book Notes – Elliot Ackerman “Green on Blue”

Book Notes – Megan Kruse “Call Me Home”

February 27, 2015

Book Notes – Nick Jaina “Get It While You Can “

February 26, 2015

Book Notes – Peter Richardson “No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead”

February 25, 2015

Book Notes – Matt Burriesci “Nonprofit”

February 24, 2015

Book Notes – Reif Larsen “I Am Radar”

February 23, 2015

Book Notes – Jynne Dilling Martin “We Mammals in Hospitable Times”

Book Notes – Alexandra Fuller “Leaving Before the Rains Come”

February 20, 2015

Book Notes – Stephanie Kegan “Golden State”

February 19, 2015

Book Notes – Steph Post “A Tree Born Crooked”

February 18, 2015

Book Notes – Laura van den Berg “Find Me”

February 17, 2015

Book Notes – Monica Byrne “The Girl in the Road”

February 16, 2015

Book Notes – John Benditt “The Boatmaker”

Book Notes – Kyle Boelte “The Beautiful Unseen”

February 13, 2015

Book Notes – Ted Gioia “Love Songs: The Hidden History”

Book Notes – Sandra Newman “The Country of Ice Cream Star”

February 12, 2015

Book Notes – M.O. Walsh “My Sunshine Away”

Book Notes – Seth Greenland “I Regret Everything”

February 11, 2015

Book Notes – Kelly Link “Get in Trouble”

February 10, 2015

Book Notes – Tatjana Soli “The Last Good Paradise”

February 6, 2015

Book Notes – Angelina Mirabella “The Sweetheart”

February 5, 2015

Book Notes – George Pelecanos “The Martini Shot”

February 4, 2015

Book Notes – Michelle Tea “How to Grow Up”

February 3, 2015

Book Notes – Amelia Morris “Bon Appetempt”

February 2, 2015

Book Notes – Daniel Galera “Blood-Drenched Beard”

January 30, 2015

Book Notes – Kevin Morris “White Man’s Problems”

January 29, 2015

Book Notes – Stephen Policoff “Come Away”

January 28, 2015

Book Notes – Tara Murtha “Bobbie Gentry’s Ode to Billie Joe”

January 27, 2015

Book Notes – Sharma Shields “The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac”

January 26, 2015

Book Notes – Michael Crummey “Sweetland”

Book Notes – Allison Adelle Hedge Coke “Streaming”

January 23, 2015

Book Notes – Mark Wisniewski “Watch Me Go”

Book Notes – Michael Christie “If I Fall, If I Die”

January 22, 2015

Book Notes – Robert Repino “Mort(e)”

January 21, 2015

Book Notes – Deepti Kapoor “A Bad Character”

January 20, 2015

Book Notes – Emma Hooper “Etta and Otto and Russell and James”

January 16, 2015

Book Notes – Monica McFawn “Bright Shards of Someplace Else”

January 15, 2015

Book Notes – Alex Green “Emergency Anthems”

January 14, 2015

Book Notes – Stewart O’Nan “West of Sunset”

January 13, 2015

Book Notes – Sarah Gerard “Binary Star”

January 12, 2015

Book Notes – Steve Himmer “Fram”

January 9, 2015

Book Notes – S. M. Hulse “Black River”

January 8, 2015

Book Notes – Thomas Pierce “Hall of Small Mammals”

January 7, 2015

Book Notes – Pamela Katz “The Partnership”

January 6, 2015

Book Notes – Rikki Ducornet “The Deep Zoo”

January 5, 2015

Book Notes – Meghan Daum “The Unspeakable”

December 22, 2014

Book Notes – Jamie Coe “Art Schooled”

December 18, 2014

Book Notes – Michael J Seidlinger “The Face of Any Other”

December 16, 2014

Book Notes – Steven Church “Ultrasonic”

Book Notes – Casey Walker “Last Days in Shanghai”

December 10, 2014

Book Notes – Domingo Martinez “My Heart Is a Drunken Compass”

December 9, 2014

Book Notes – Frank Portman “King Dork Approximately”

December 8, 2014

Book Notes – Peter Bebergal “Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll”

December 4, 2014

Book Notes – John Dermot Woods “The Baltimore Atrocities”

December 2, 2014

Book Notes – Carla Panciera “Bewildered”

December 1, 2014

Book Notes – Nicholas Rombes “The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing”

Book Notes – Dolan Morgan “That’s When the Knives Come Down”

November 25, 2014

Book Notes – Fred Venturini “The Heart Does Not Grow Back”

November 24, 2014

Book Notes – Joshua Harmon “The Annotated Mixtape”

Book Notes – Mandy Aftel “Fragrant”

November 21, 2014

Book Notes – Sean Manning, Jack Pendarvis, Heather Havrilesky, Phil Hanrahan, Laura Lippman, Emily Chenoweth “Come Here Often?”

Book Notes – Cassandra Troyan “Blacken Me, Blacken Me, Growled” and “Kill Manual”

November 18, 2014

Book Notes – Jeff VanderMeer “Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy”

November 17, 2014

Book Notes – Ben Marcus “Leaving the Sea”

Book Notes – MB Caschetta “Miracle Girls”

November 14, 2014

Book Notes – Naja Marie Aidt “Baboon”

Book Notes – Elizabeth Kadetsky “The Poison that Purifies You”

November 13, 2014

Book Notes – Jac Jemc “A Different Bed Every Time”

November 11, 2014

Book Notes – Forrest Gander “The Trace”

November 10, 2014

Book Notes – Brock Clarke “The Happiest People in the World”

Book Notes – James Tadd Adcox “Does Not Love”

November 7, 2014

Book Notes – Chris Bower, Margaret Patton Chapman, Tiff Holland, Meg Pokrass, and Aaron Teel “My Very End of the Universe”

Book Notes – Leesa Cross-Smith “Every Kiss a War”

November 6, 2014

Book Notes – Jonathan Ashley “The Cost of Doing Business”

November 4, 2014

Book Notes – Michael McGriff and J.M. Tyree “Our Secret Life in the Movies”

November 3, 2014

Book Notes – MariNaomi “Dragon’s Breath”

October 31, 2014

Book Notes – Molly Gloss “Falling from Horses”

Book Notes – Sarah Wildman “Paper Love”

Book Notes – Amy Jo Burns “Cinderland”

October 28, 2014

Book Notes – Edward Carey “Heap House”

October 27, 2014

Book Notes – Brian Costello “Losing in Gainesville”

Book Notes – Lynn Lurie “Quick Kills”

October 24, 2014

Book Notes – Jesmyn Ward “Men We Reaped”

Book Notes – Lee Klein “The Shimmering Go-Between”

October 23, 2014

Book Notes – Bill Roorbach “The Remedy for Love”

October 21, 2014

Book Notes – Jack Livings “The Dog”

Book Notes – Kevin Fortuna “The Dunning Man”

Book Notes – Johanna Skibsrud “Quartet for the End of Time”

October 17, 2014

Book Notes – Anne Valente “By Light We Knew Our Names”

Book Notes – Isabel Quintero “Gabi, a Girl in Pieces”

October 14, 2014

Book Notes – Darcey Steinke “Sister Golden Hair”

October 13, 2014

Book Notes – Amina Gautier “Now We Will Be Happy”

October 10, 2014

Book Notes – Gina B. Nahai “The Luminous Heart of Jonah S.”

Book Notes – Hannah Pittard “Reunion”

Book Notes – Liz Crain “Food Lover’s Guide to Portland”

October 9, 2014

Book Notes – Simmone Howell “Girl Defective”

October 6, 2014

Book Notes – Karen Karbo “The Diamond Lane”

October 3, 2014

Book Notes – Lars Iyer “Wittgenstein Jr”

Book Notes – Thomas Page McBee “Man Alive”

October 2, 2014

Book Notes – Kathleen Founds “When Mystical Creatures Attack!”

September 30, 2014

Book Notes – Kim Zupan “The Ploughmen”

September 29, 2014

Book Notes – Jean Thompson “The Witch: And Other Tales Re-Told”

Book Notes – Susan Hope Lanier “The Game We Play”

September 26, 2014

Book Notes – Stuart Rojstaczer “The Mathematician’s Shiva”

Book Notes – Dmitry Samarov “Where To?: A Hack Memoir”

September 25, 2014

Book Notes – Eimear McBride “A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing”

September 23, 2014

Book Notes – Mike Meginnis “Fat Man and Little Boy”

September 22, 2014

Book Notes – George Lerner “The Ambassadors”

Book Notes – Courtney Moreno “In Case of Emergency”

September 19, 2014

Book Notes – Ronna Wineberg “On Bittersweet Place”

Book Notes – David Bajo “Mercy 6”

September 18, 2014

Book Notes – William Alexander “Flirting with French”

September 17, 2014

Book Notes – Sarah Yaw “You Are Free to Go”

September 15, 2014

Book Notes – Luke B. Goebel “Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours”

Book Notes – Johnny Temple’s Brooklyn Book Festival Playlist

September 12, 2014

Book Notes – Laila Lalami “The Moor’s Account”

Book Notes – Benjamin Parzybok “Sherwood Nation”

September 11, 2014

Book Notes – Tod Goldberg “Gangsterland”

September 10, 2014

Book Notes – Jess Row “Your Face in Mine”

Book Notes – Christos Tsiolkas “Barracuda”

September 9, 2014

Book Notes – Laird Hunt “Neverhome”

September 8, 2014

Book Notes – Lisa Howorth “Flying Shoes”

September 5, 2014

Book Notes – Patrick Hoffman “The White Van”

Book Notes – Mark Chiusano “Marine Park”

September 3, 2014

Book Notes – Amanda Petrusich “Do Not Sell At Any Price”

September 2, 2014

Book Notes – Justin Taylor “Flings”

Book Notes – Mary Gordon “The Liar’s Wife”

August 29, 2014

Book Notes – Carys Bray “A Song for Issy Bradley”

Book Notes – Derek McCulloch “Displaced Persons”

August 26, 2014

Book Notes – Matthea Harvey “If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?”

August 25, 2014

Book Notes – Brian Kevin “The Footloose American”

Book Notes – Dinah Lenney “The Object Parade”

August 22, 2014

Book Notes – Anya Ulinich “Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel”

August 21, 2014

Book Notes – Elissa Washuta “My Body Is a Book of Rules”

Book Notes – Choire Sicha “Very Recent History”

August 18, 2014

Book Notes – Wendy C. Ortiz “Excavation”

Book Notes – Vanessa Manko “The Invention of Exile”

August 15, 2014

Book Notes – Laura Ellen Joyce “The Luminol Reels”

Book Notes – Various Authors “Astoria to Zion: Twenty-Six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone’s First Decade”

August 14, 2014

Book Notes – Rene Steinke “Friendswood”

Book Notes – William Todd Seabrook “The Imagination of Lewis Carroll”

August 12, 2014

Book Notes – David Connerley Nahm “Ancient Oceans of Central Kentucky”

August 11, 2014

Book Notes – Bruce Holbert “The Hour of Lead”

Book Notes – Eleni Sikelianos “You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek)”

August 8, 2014

Book Notes – Josh Ostergaard “The Devil’s Snake Curve”

Book Notes – Ryan O’Neill “The Weight of a Human Heart”

August 6, 2014

Book Notes – Kimberly Elkins “What Is Visible”

August 5, 2014

Book Notes – Marie-Helene Bertino “2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas”

August 4, 2014

Book Notes – Robert Vaughan “Addicts & Basements”

Book Notes – Dan Epstein “Stars and Strikes”

July 31, 2014

Book Notes – Nick Harkaway “Tigerman”

July 29, 2014

Book Notes – Christy Crutchfield “How to Catch a Coyote”

July 28, 2014

Book Notes – Matthew Gavin Frank “Preparing the Ghost”

Book Notes – Nicole C. Kear “Now I See You”

July 25, 2014

Book Notes – Lance Olsen “[[ there. ]]”

Book Notes – Lance Olsen “Theories of Forgetting”

July 24, 2014

Book Notes – Maya Lang “The Sixteenth of June”

July 23, 2014

Book Notes – Susan Scarf Merrell “Shirley”

Book Notes – Phil Elverum “Dust”

July 21, 2014

Book Notes – Gustavo Faverón Patriau “The Antiquarian”

Book Notes – Jean Kwok “Mambo in Chinatown”

July 18, 2014

Book Notes – Michael J. Seidlinger “The Fun We’ve Had”

Book Notes – Christopher J. Yates “Black Chalk”

July 17, 2014

Book Notes – Mike Edison “The Carnivore’s Manifesto”

July 16, 2014

Book Notes – Scott Cheshire “High as the Horses’ Bridles”

July 15, 2014

Book Notes – Sean Wilsey “More Curious”

July 14, 2014

Book Notes – Valeria Luiselli “Faces in the Crowd”

Book Notes – Thomas Sweterlitsch “Tomorrow and Tomorrow”

July 11, 2014

Book Notes – Mira Jacob “The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing”

Book Notes – Glen Hirshberg “Motherless Child”

July 10, 2014

Book Notes – Tiphanie Yanique “Land of Love and Drowning”

Book Notes – Craig Davidson “Cataract City”

July 8, 2014

Book Notes – Will Chancellor “A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall”

July 7, 2014

Book Notes – Ben Watt “Romany and Tom”

Book Notes – Joshua Kornreich “Knotty, Knotty, Knotty”

July 3, 2014

Book Notes – Josh Weil “The Great Glass Sea”

July 2, 2014

Book Notes – Gary Amdahl “Across My Big Brass Bed”

June 30, 2014

Book Notes – Courtney Collins “The Untold”

Book Notes – John Domini “The Sea-God’s Herb: Reviews and Essays”

June 27, 2014

Book Notes – Samrat Upadhyay “The City Son”

Book Notes – Leah Umansky “Don Dreams and I Dream”

June 26, 2014

Book Notes – Tom Rachman “The Rise & Fall of Great Powers”

Book Notes – Richard Thomas “The New Black: A Neo-Noir Anthology”

June 24, 2014

Book Notes – Megan Abbott “The Fever”

June 23, 2014

Book Notes – Lauren Becker “If I Would Leave Myself Behind”

Book Notes – Musharraf Ali Farooqi “Between Clay and Dust”

June 20, 2014

Book Notes – Ariel Schrag “Adam”

Book Notes – Anna Clark “A Detroit Anthology”

June 19, 2014

Book Notes – Sean Ennis “Chase Us”

June 18, 2014

Book Notes – Susan Choi “My Education”

June 17, 2014

Book Notes – Tyler McMahon “Kilometer 99”

June 16, 2014

Book Notes – Stan Parish “Down the Shore”

Book Notes – Violet Kupersmith “The Frangipani Hotel”

June 13, 2014

Book Notes – Bret Anthony Johnston “Remember Me Like This”

Book Notes – Anthony Breznican “Brutal Youth”

June 12, 2014

Book Notes – Shane Jones “Crystal Eaters”

June 10, 2014

Book Notes – Sean Michaels “Us Conductors”

June 9, 2014

Book Notes – Cristina Henriquez “The Book of Unknown Americans”

Book Notes – Randi Davenport “The End of Always”

June 8, 2014

Book Notes – Nathan Deuel “Friday Was the Bomb”

June 6, 2014

Book Notes – Joshua Corey “Beautiful Soul”

June 5, 2014

Book Notes – Marc Spitz “Twee: The Gentle Revolution in Music, Books, Television, Fashion, and Film”

June 3, 2014

Book Notes – John Brandon “Further Joy”

June 2, 2014

Book Notes – Kseniya Melnik “Snow in May”

Book Notes – CJ Hauser “The From-Aways”

May 30, 2014

Book Notes – Leslie Jamison “The Empathy Exams”

Book Notes – Steve Brezenoff “Guy in Real Life”

May 29, 2014

Book Notes – Courtney Elizabeth Mauk “Orion’s Daughters”

May 28, 2014

Book Notes – Porochista Khakpour “The Last Illusion”

May 27, 2014

Book Notes – Aaron Gwyn “Wynne’s War”

May 23, 2014

Book Notes – Krista Bremer “My Accidental Jihad”

Book Notes – Eric Charles May “Bedrock Faith”

May 22, 2014

Book Notes – Bill Hillmann “The Old Neighborhood”

May 21, 2014

Book Notes – Roxane Gay “An Untamed State”

May 20, 2014

Book Notes – Sarah Lotz “The Three”

May 19, 2014

Book Notes – Elizabeth Eslami “Hibernate”

Book Notes – Momus “UnAmerica”

May 16, 2014

Book Notes – Jacob Bacharach “The Bend of the World”

Book Notes – Robert Glancy “Terms & Conditions”

May 15, 2014

Book Notes – Kate Racculia “Bellweather Rhapsody”

Book Notes – Kevin Clouther “We Were Flying to Chicago”

May 13, 2014

Book Notes – George Singleton “Between Wrecks”

May 12, 2014

Book Notes – Stacey D’Erasmo “Wonderland”

Book Notes – Hamid Ismailov “The Underground”

May 9, 2014

Book Notes – Megan Milks “Kill Marguerite”

Book Notes – Kevin P. Keating “The Natural Order of Things”

May 8, 2014

Book Notes – Jen Doll “Save the Date”

May 7, 2014

Book Notes – James Klise “The Art of Secrets”

May 6, 2014

Book Notes – Brian Gresko “When I First Held You”

May 5, 2014

Book Notes – David James Poissant “The Heaven of Animals”

Book Notes – K. Anis Ahmed “Good Night, Mr. Kissinger”

May 2, 2014

Book Notes – Melissa Pritchard “Palmerino”

Book Notes – Thomas Pico “Absent Mindr”

May 1, 2014

Book Notes – Maxwell Neely-Cohen “Echo of the Boom”

April 30, 2014

Book Notes – Jan Elizabeth Watson “What Has Become of You”

April 29, 2014

Book Notes – Maggie Shipstead “Astonish Me”

April 28, 2014

Book Notes – Francesca Marciano “The Other Language”

Book Notes – Kathleen Rooney “O, Democracy!”

April 25, 2014

Book Notes – Adrianne Harun “A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain”

Book Notes – Juliet Escoria “Black Cloud”

April 24, 2014

Book Notes – Elizabeth McCracken “Thunderstruck”

Book Notes – Ben Peek “Dead Americans”

April 23, 2014

Book Notes – Holly George-Warren “A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, From Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man”

April 22, 2014

Book Notes – Mimi Pond “Over Easy”

April 21, 2014

Book Notes – Simon Wroe “Chop Chop”

Book Notes – Joseph Riippi “Because”

April 19, 2014

Book Notes – Sean Madigan Hoen “Songs Only You Know”

April 18, 2014

Book Notes – Cara Hoffman “Be Safe I Love You”

April 17, 2014

Book Notes – Christopher Brookmyre “Bred in the Bone”

April 16, 2014

Book Notes – Jaime Clarke “Vernon Downs”

April 15, 2014

Book Notes – Alena Graedon “The Word Exchange”

Book Notes – Damian Barr “Maggie & Me”

April 14, 2014

Book Notes – Liel Leibovitz “A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen”

Book Notes – Isla Morley “Above”

April 13, 2014

Book Notes – Adam Wilson “What’s Important Is Feeling”

April 11, 2014

Book Notes – Daniel Levine “Hyde”

Book Notes – Tova Mirvis “Visible City”

April 8, 2014

Book Notes – Kodi Scheer “Incendiary Girls”

April 7, 2014

Book Notes – Peter Mountford “The Dismal Science”

Book Notes – Gregory Robinson “All Movies Love the Moon: Prose Poems on Silent Film”

April 6, 2014

Book Notes – Julia Cooke “The Other Side of Paradise”

April 4, 2014

Book Notes – William Boyle “Gravesend”

April 3, 2014

Book Notes – Nathan Oates “The Empty House”

April 1, 2014

Book Notes – Ben Tanzer “Lost in Space: A Father’s Journey There and Back Again”

March 31, 2014

Book Notes – Sherill Tippins “Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York’s Legendary Chelsea Hotel”

March 28, 2014

Book Notes – David Stuart MacLean “The Answer to the Riddle Is Me”

Book Notes – Molly Caro May “The Map of Enough”

March 27, 2014

Book Notes – Dustin Long “Bad Teeth”

March 25, 2014

Book Notes – Anthony De Sa “Kicking the Sky”

March 24, 2014

Book Notes – Kenneth Calhoun “Black Moon”

Book Notes – Deji Olukotun “Nigerians in Space”

March 21, 2014

Book Notes – Marcel Theroux “Strange Bodies”

Book Notes – Jeremy P. Bushnell “The Weirdness”

March 20, 2014

Book Notes – Kim Church “Byrd”

March 18, 2014

Book Notes – D. Foy “Made to Break”

Book Notes – Louis Bayard “Roosevelt’s Beast”

March 17, 2014

Book Notes – Maud Casey “The Man Who Walked Away”

Book Notes – Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski “Painted Cities”

March 14, 2014

Book Notes – Rohan Wilson “The Roving Party”

Book Notes – Alex Segura “Silent City”

March 13, 2014

Book Notes – Nickolas Butler “Shotgun Lovesongs”

March 11, 2014

Book Notes – Laura McHugh “The Weight of Blood”

March 10, 2014

Book Notes – Domenica Ruta “With or Without You”

Book Notes – Caryn Rose “A Whole New Ballgame”

March 7, 2014

Book Notes – April Wilder “This Is Not an Accident”

Book Notes – Austin Kleon “Show Your Work!”

Book Notes – Kim Cooper “The Kept Girl”

March 5, 2014

Book Notes – Michelle Richmond “Golden State”

March 4, 2014

Book Notes – Nick Lantz “How to Dance as the Roof Caves In”

March 3, 2014

Book Notes – Tom Williams “Don’t Start Me Talkin'”

Book Notes – Pamela Ribon “Notes to Boys”

February 28, 2014

Book Notes – Cecil Castellucci “Tin Star”

Book Notes – TaraShea Nesbit “The Wives of Los Alamos”

February 27, 2014

Book Notes – Justin Hocking “The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld”

Book Notes – Charles Finch “The Last Enchantments”

February 26, 2014

Book Notes – Chris Abani “The Secret History of Las Vegas”

February 25, 2014

Book Notes – Amy Greene “Long Man”

February 24, 2014

Book Notes – Nicole Helget “Stillwater”

Book Notes – Dave Housley “Commercial Fiction”

February 21, 2014

Book Notes – Joshua Max Feldman “The Book of Jonah”

Book Notes – Michael Grant Jaffe “When Blackness Was a Virtue”

February 20, 2014

Book Notes – Dan Goldman “Red Light Properties”

February 18, 2014

Book Notes – Nicholas Grider “Misadventure”

February 17, 2014

Book Notes – Liza Monroy “The Marriage Act”

Book Notes – Jessica Lamb-Shapiro “Promise Land”

February 14, 2014

Book Notes – Michelle Wildgen “Bread and Butter”

Book Notes – Laurel Snyder “Seven Stories Up”

February 13, 2014

Book Notes – Jennifer Clement “Prayers for the Stolen”

February 11, 2014

Book Notes – Bill Cotter “The Parallel Apartments”

Book Notes – Ryan Blacketter “Down in the River”

February 10, 2014

Book Notes – Jeff VanderMeer “Annihilation,” “Authority,” and “Acceptance”

Book Notes – Jude Cook “Byron Easy”

February 7, 2014

Book Notes – Gina Frangello “A Life in Men”

Book Notes – Rabih Alameddine “An Unnecessary Woman”

February 6, 2014

Book Notes – Dorthe Nors “Karate Chop”

Book Notes – Clifford Chase “The Tooth Fairy”

February 4, 2014

Book Notes – Kyle Minor “Praying Drunk”

Book Notes – Matthew Olshan “Marshlands”

February 3, 2014

Book Notes – Lisa Moore “Caught”

Book Notes – Andrew Ladd “What Ends”

January 31, 2014

Book Notes – Jason Porter “Why Are You So Sad?”

January 30, 2014

Book Notes – Joe Nelms “The Last Time I Died”

January 28, 2014

Book Notes – Jesse Ball “Silence Once Begun”

Book Notes – Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor “Dust”

January 27, 2014

Book Notes – Magdalena Zyzak “The Ballad of Barnabas Pierkiel”

Book Notes – Drew Perry “Kids These Days”

January 24, 2014

Book Notes – Okey Ndibe “Foreign Gods, Inc.”

Book Notes – Rachel Louise Snyder “What We’ve Lost Is Nothing”

January 23, 2014

Book Notes – Mary Miller “The Last Days of California”

Book Notes – Christine Benvenuto “Sex Changes”

January 21, 2014

Book Notes – Diane Johnson “Flyover Lives”

Book Notes – Marina Mander “The First True Lie”

January 20, 2014

Book Notes – Christopher Bundy “Baby, You’re a Rich Man”

January 17, 2014

Book Notes – Rachel Cantor “A Highly Unlikely Scenario”

Book Notes – Christopher Merkner “The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic”

Book Notes – Jessica Hendry Nelson “If Only You People Could Follow Directions”

January 16, 2014

Book Notes – Adam Sternbergh “Shovel Ready”

Book Notes – Kim Fu “For Today I Am a Boy”

January 14, 2014

Book Notes – Andrea Portes “Bury This”

January 13, 2014

Book Notes – Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando “Roomies”

Book Notes – Danielle Trussoni “Angelopolis”

January 10, 2014

Book Notes – James Scott “The Kept”

Book Notes – Kirstin Chen “Soy Sauce for Beginners”

January 7, 2014

Book Notes – Chang-rae Lee “On Such a Full Sea”

January 3, 2014

Book Notes – Warren Lehrer “A Life In Books”

Book Notes – Ian Stansel “Everybody’s Irish”

January 2, 2014

Book Notes – Kevin Sampsell “This Is Between Us”

Book Notes – Daniel Menaker “My Mistake”

December 20, 2013

Book Notes – John Dermot Woods “Activities”

Book Notes – Jamie S. Rich and Natalie Nourigat “A Boy and a Girl”

December 19, 2013

Book Notes – Ivan Vladislavic “Double Negative”

December 18, 2013

Book Notes – Angela and Michaelanne Petrella “Recipe”

December 17, 2013

Book Notes – John Gorham and Liz Crain “Toro Bravo”

December 13, 2013

Book Notes – William VanDenBerg “Lake of Earth”

December 12, 2013

Book Notes – Trisha Low “The Compleat Purge”

December 10, 2013

Book Notes – Leslie Cannold “The Book of Rachael”

Book Notes – Eugene Lim “The Strangers”

December 6, 2013

Book Notes – Ryan Bartelmay “Onward Toward What We’re Going Toward”

Book Notes – Victoria Patterson “The Peerless Four”

December 5, 2013

Book Notes – Jessica Stilling “Betwixt and Between”

December 4, 2013

Book Notes – Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon “Nothing”

December 3, 2013

Book Notes – Debbie Millman “Self-Portrait as Your Traitor”

Book Notes – Mark Haskell Smith “Raw: A Love Story”

November 26, 2013

Book Notes – Sean Beaudoin “Wise Young Fool”

Book Notes – Ravi Mangla “Understudies”

November 22, 2013

Book Notes – Brendan Connell “Miss Homicide Plays the Flute”

Book Notes – Joe Henry “Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him”

November 21, 2013

Book Notes – Cassandra Troyan “Throne of Blood”

November 20, 2013

Book Notes – David Lehman “New and Selected Poems”

November 19, 2013

Book Notes – Martin Aston “Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD”

Book Notes – Nathan Filer “Where the Moon Isn’t”

November 15, 2013

Book Notes – Daniel Nester “The Incredible Sestina Anthology”

Book Notes – Snowden Wright “Play Pretty Blues”

November 14, 2013

Book Notes – P.S. Duffy “The Cartographer of No Man’s Land”

November 12, 2013

Book Notes – Nicola Griffith “Hild”

November 8, 2013

Book Notes – Laura van den Berg “The Isle of Youth”

Book Notes – Laura Hemphill “Buying In”

November 7, 2013

Book Notes – Nicolas Lampert “A People’s Art History of the United States”

November 5, 2013

Book Notes – Jonathan Miles “Want Not”

Book Notes – Roy Choi “L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food”

November 1, 2013

Book Notes – Ben Tanzer “Orphans”

Book Notes – Robert Hilburn “Johnny Cash: The Life”

October 31, 2013

Book Notes – Peter Ames Carlin “Bruce”

October 29, 2013

Book Notes – Scott McClanahan “Hill William”

Book Notes – Jeff Somers “Chum”

October 25, 2013

Book Notes – Kenneth Bonert “The Lion Seeker”

Book Notes – Kari Luna “The Theory of Everything”

October 24, 2013

Book Notes – Kelcey Parker “Liliane’s Balcony”

October 22, 2013

Book Notes – Will Self “Umbrella”

Book Notes – Marcia Alesan Dawkins “Eminem: The Real Slim Shady”

October 18, 2013

Book Notes – Don Waters “Sunland”

Book Notes – Andrew Steinmetz “This Great Escape”

October 17, 2013

Book Notes – Lisa Borders “The Fifty-First State”

Book Notes – Michael Demson “Masks Of Anarchy”

October 16, 2013

Book Notes – Justin Kramon “The Preservationist”

October 15, 2013

Book Notes – Cari Luna “The Revolution of Every Day”

Book Notes – Wayne Macauley “The Cook”

October 11, 2013

Book Notes – Sergio De La Pava “Personae”

Book Notes – Lynn Coady “The Antagonist”

October 10, 2013

Book Notes – Matthue Roth “My First Kafka”

October 9, 2013

Book Notes – Catherine Burns “The Moth”

October 8, 2013

Book Notes – George Pelecanos “The Double”

Book Notes – Jessica Keener “Women in Bed”

October 4, 2013

Book Notes – Bill Roorbach “Life Among Giants”

Book Notes – Norm Sibum “The Traymore Rooms”

October 3, 2013

Book Notes – Natalie Serber “Shout Her Lovely Name”

Book Notes – Marek Waldorf “The Short Fall”

October 2, 2013

Book Notes – Beth Lisick “Yokohama Threeway: And Other Small Shames”

October 1, 2013

Book Notes – Kelly Luce “Three Scenarios In Which Hana Sasaki Grows A Tail”

Book Notes – James Robertson “The Professor of Truth”

September 27, 2013

Book Notes – Paul Kwiatkowski “And Every Day Was Overcast”

Book Notes – Kevin Smokler “Practical Classics”

September 26, 2013

Book Notes – Lauren Grodstein “The Explanation for Everything”

Book Notes – David Schickler “The Dark Path”

September 25, 2013

Book Notes – Justin St. Germain “Son of a Gun”

September 24, 2013

Book Notes – Jeff Jackson “Mira Corpora”

Book Notes – T. Greenwood “Bodies of Water”

September 20, 2013

Book Notes – Kevin Fenton “Leaving Rollingstone”

Book Notes – Laura Krughoff “My Brother’s Name”

September 19, 2013

Book Notes – Kate Manning “My Notorious Life”

Book Notes – David Vann “Goat Mountain”

September 18, 2013

Book Notes – Colin McAdam “A Beautiful Truth”

September 17, 2013

Book Notes – Eric Lundgren “The Facades”

Book Notes – Chris L. Terry “Zero Fade”

September 13, 2013

Book Notes – Jesse Michaels “Whispering Bodies”

Book Notes – Leah Hager Cohen “I Don’t Know”

September 12, 2013

Book Notes – Claudia Zuluaga “Fort Starlight”

Book Notes – Leila Sales “This Song Will Save Your Life”

September 11, 2013

Book Notes – Peter Murphy “The River and Enoch O’Reilly”

September 10, 2013

Book Notes – Paul Harding “Enon”

Book Notes – Hannah Kent “Burial Rites”

September 6, 2013

Book Notes – Dan Beachy-Quick “An Impenetrable Screen of Purest Sky”

Book Notes – Tim Finch “The House of Journalists”

September 5, 2013

Book Notes – Ben Dolnick “At the Bottom of Everything”

Book Notes – Gwenda Bond “The Woken Gods”

September 4, 2013

Book Notes – Jillian Cantor “Margot”

September 3, 2013

Book Notes – Kathryn Davis “Duplex”

Book Notes – Dave Hill “Tasteful Nudes”

August 30, 2013

Book Notes – Ciaran Collins “The Gamal”

Book Notes – Gillian Linden “Remember How I Told You I Loved You?”

August 29, 2013

Book Notes – Gabriel Roth “The Unknowns”

Book Notes – Patricia Engel “It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris”

August 28, 2013

Book Notes – Allison Lynn “The Exiles”

August 27, 2013

Book Notes – Sarah Weinman “Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense”

Book Notes – Sinan Antoon “The Corpse Washer”

August 23, 2013

Book Notes – Patrick Flanery “Fallen Land”

Book Notes – Anne Sward “Breathless”

August 22, 2013

Book Notes – Mitchell S. Jackson “The Residue Years”

Book Notes – Ethan Hauser “The Measures Between Us”

August 21, 2013

Book Notes – Rob Roberge “The Cost of Living”

August 20, 2013

Book Notes – Dennis Bock “Going Home Again”

August 19, 2013

Book Notes – Alex Marwood “The Wicked Girls”

Book Notes – Ben Winters “Countdown City”

August 15, 2013

Book Notes – Susan Conley “Paris Was the Place”

Book Notes – Janice Deal “The Decline of Pigeons”

August 14, 2013

Book Notes – Nick Antosca “The Girlfriend Game”

August 13, 2013

Book Notes – Saïd Sayrafiezadeh “Brief Encounters with the Enemy”

Book Notes – Lucy Corin “One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses”

August 9, 2013

Book Notes – Peter Orner “Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge”

Book Notes – Kelly Braffet “Save Yourself”

Book Notes – Scott Bradfield “The History of Luminous Motion”

August 8, 2013

Book Notes – Brendan Jay Sullivan “Rivington Was Ours: Lady Gaga, the Lower East Side, and the Prime of Our Lives”

August 7, 2013

Book Notes – Jenni Fagan “The Panopticon”

August 6, 2013

Book Notes – Mark Slouka “Brewster”

Book Notes – Stacey D’Erasmo “The Art of Intimacy”

August 2, 2013

Book Notes – Stephen Burt “Belmont”

Book Notes – Jen Michalski “The Tide King”

August 1, 2013

Book Notes – Adelle Waldman “The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.”

Book Notes – Lori Baker “The Glass Ocean”

July 31, 2013

Book Notes – Kevin C. Smith “Recombo DNA: The Story Of Devo, Or How the 60s Became the 80s”

July 30, 2013

Book Notes – Royal Young “Fame Shark”

Book Notes – Warren Ellis “Dead Pig Collector”

July 26, 2013

Book Notes – Lauren Beukes “The Shining Girls”

Book Notes – Scott Lasser “Say Nice Things About Detroit”

July 25, 2013

Book Notes – Jen Lin-Liu “On the Noodle Road”

Book Notes – Ron Carlson “Return to Oakpine”

July 24, 2013

Book Notes – Jens Lapidus “Never Fuck Up”

July 23, 2013

Book Notes – Tao Lin “Taipei”

Book Notes – Ben Stroud “Byzantium”

July 19, 2013

Book Notes – David Margolick “Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns”

Book Notes – Jordaan Mason “The Skin Team”

July 18, 2013

Book Notes – Merrill Joan Gerber “The Hysterectomy Waltz”

July 17, 2013

Book Notes – Austin Grossman “You”

July 16, 2013

Book Notes – Matthew Guinn “The Resurrectionist”

Book Notes – Sam Toperoff “Lillian & Dash”

July 12, 2013

Book Notes – Lindsay Hunter “Don’t Kiss Me”

Book Notes – Rosecrans Baldwin “Paris, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down”

July 11, 2013

Book Notes – Veronica Gonzalez Peña “The Sad Passions”

Book Notes – Sarah Pemberton Strong “The Fainting Room”

July 9, 2013

Book Notes – Monica Drake “The Stud Book”

Book Notes – Ali Liebegott “Cha-Ching!”

July 5, 2013

Book Notes – Ethan Rutherford “The Peripatetic Coffin”

Book Notes – Michelle Tea “Mermaid In Chelsea Creek”

July 2, 2013

Book Notes – Rock Bottom Remainders “Hard Listening”

Book Notes – Jessica Anya Blau “The Wonder Bread Summer”

June 28, 2013

Book Notes – Chris Eaton “Chris Eaton, a Biography”

Book Notes – Nancy Jo Cullen “Canary”

June 27, 2013

Book Notes – Preston L. Allen “Every Boy Should Have a Man”

Book Notes – Simon Spence “The Stone Roses: War and Peace “

June 26, 2013

Book Notes – Matt Bell “In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods”

June 25, 2013

Book Notes – Jennifer Cody Epstein “The Gods of Heavenly Punishment”

Book Notes – Gabe Durham “Fun Camp”

June 21, 2013

Book Notes – Thomas Van Essen “The Center of the World”

Book Notes – Jim Ottaviani “Primates”

June 20, 2013

Book Notes – A. Igoni Barrett “Love Is Power, or Something Like That”

Book Notes – Kim Barnes “In the Kingdom of Men”

June 19, 2013

Book Notes – Eli Brown “Cinnamon and Gunpowder”

June 18, 2013

Book Notes – Lori Carson “The Original 1982”

Book Notes – Richard Melo “Happy Talk”

June 14, 2013

Book Notes – Andrew Vachss “Aftershock”

Book Notes – Maris Wicks “Primates”

Book Notes – Joshua Isard “Conquistador of the Useless”

June 13, 2013

Book Notes – Jaimee Garbacik “Gender and Sexuality For Beginners”

June 12, 2013

Book Notes – Travis Nichols “The More You Ignore Me”

June 11, 2013

Book Notes – Craig Nova “All the Dead Yale Men”

Book Notes – Jasmine Beach-Ferrara “Damn Love”

June 10, 2013

Book Notes – Anton DiSclafani “The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls”

June 7, 2013

Book Notes – Brian Kimberling “Snapper”

Book Notes – Marc Weingarten “Yes Is The Answer: (And Other Prog-Rock Tales)”

June 6, 2013

Book Notes – Anthony Marra “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”

Book Notes – Masha Hamilton “What Changes Everything”

June 5, 2013

Book Notes – Alina Simone “Note to Self”

June 4, 2013

Book Notes – Gregory Spatz “Half as Happy”

May 31, 2013

Book Notes – Courtney Angela Brkic “The First Rule of Swimming”

Book Notes – Peter Anderson “Wheatyard”

May 30, 2013

Book Notes – Ramona Ausubel “A Guide to Being Born”

Book Notes – Samuel Sattin “League of Somebodies”

May 29, 2013

Book Notes – Taiye Selasi “Ghana Must Go”

May 28, 2013

Book Notes – Joan Silber “Fools”

Book Notes – Dan Kennedy “American Spirit”

May 24, 2013

Book Notes – Scott Elliott “Temple Grove”

Book Notes – Jan Richman “Thrill-Bent”

May 23, 2013

Book Notes – Christopher Hacker “The Morels”

Book Notes – Elizabeth Huergo “The Death of Fidel Perez”

May 22, 2013

Book Notes – Sarah Gerkensmeyer “What You Are Now Enjoying”

May 21, 2013

Book Notes – Charles Newman and Ben Ryder Howe “In Partial Disgrace”

Book Notes – Drew Magary “Someone Could Get Hurt”

May 20, 2013

Book Notes – Ru Freeman “On Sal Mal Lane”

May 17, 2013

Book Notes – Virginia Pye “River of Dust”

Book Notes – Various Authors “The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage”

May 16, 2013

Book Notes – Norah Labiner “Let the Dark Flower Blossom”

Book Notes – Cecil Castellucci “Odd Duck”

May 15, 2013

Book Notes – Norman Lock “Love Among the Particles”

May 14, 2013

Book Notes – Ben Greenman “The Slippage”

May 10, 2013

Book Notes – Joanna Hershon “A Dual Inheritance”

May 9, 2013

Book Notes – Bill Loehfelm “The Devil in Her Way”

Book Notes – Michael Zapruder “Pink Thunder”

May 8, 2013

Book Notes – Cate Lineberry “The Secret Rescue”

Book Notes – Sean Murphy “Punk Rock Jesus”

May 7, 2013

Book Notes – Elanor Dymott “Every Contact Leaves A Trace”

May 3, 2013

Book Notes – Michele Forbes “Ghost Moth”

Book Notes – Amy Shearn “The Mermaid of Brooklyn”

May 2, 2013

Book Notes – Lucy Knisley “Relish”

Book Notes – Anna Stothard “The Pink Hotel”

April 30, 2013

Book Notes – Julie Wu “The Third Son”

April 29, 2013

Book Notes – Toure “I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon”

April 26, 2013

Book Notes – Blake Bailey “Farther and Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson”

Book Notes – Laura Lee Smith “Heart of Palm”

April 25, 2013

Book Notes – Amit Majmudar “The Abundance”

Book Notes – Jenny Davidson “The Magic Circle”

April 24, 2013

Book Notes – Julie Sarkissian “Dear Lucy”

April 23, 2013

Book Notes – James Kelman “Mo Said She Was Quirky”

April 19, 2013

Book Notes – Jake Arnott “The House of Rumour”

Book Notes – Leah Umansky “Domestic Uncertainties”

April 18, 2013

Book Notes – Amy Brill “The Movement of Stars”

Book Notes – B.J. Hollars “Sightings”

April 17, 2013

Book Notes – Jessica Soffer “Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots”

April 16, 2013

Book Notes – Boaz Yakin “Jerusalem: A Family Portrait”

April 12, 2013

Book Notes – Matthew Specktor “American Dream Machine”

Book Notes – Lenore Zion “Stupid Children”

April 11, 2013

Book Notes – Meg Wolitzer “The Interestings”

Book Notes – Elizabeth Scarboro “My Foreign Cities”

April 10, 2013

Book Notes – Jennifer Gilmore “The Mothers”

April 9, 2013

Book Notes – Rayya Elias “Harley Loco”

April 5, 2013

Book Notes – Peter Rock “The Shelter Cycle”

Book Notes – Dave Bry “Public Apology”

April 4, 2013

Book Notes – A. L. Kennedy “The Blue Book”

Book Notes – Shawn Vestal “Godforsaken Idaho”

April 3, 2013

Book Notes – Laleh Khadivi “The Walking”

April 2, 2013

Book Notes – Fiona Maazel “Woke Up Lonely”

March 29, 2013

Book Notes – Benjamin Lytal “A Map of Tulsa”

Book Notes – M. Henderson Ellis “Keeping Bedlam at Bay in the Prague Cafe”

March 28, 2013

Book Notes – Ron Currie Jr. “Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles”

Book Notes – Fred Waitzkin “The Dream Merchant”

March 27, 2013

Book Notes – Jen Michalski “Could You Be With Her Now”

March 26, 2013

Book Notes – Kristopher Jansma “The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards”

March 22, 2013

Book Notes – Frank Bill “Donnybrook”

Book Notes – Roy Kesey “Any Deadly Thing”

March 21, 2013

Book Notes – Leigh Newman “Still Points North”

Book Notes – Steven Amsterdam “What the Family Needed”

March 20, 2013

Book Notes – Ryan McIlvain “Elders”

March 19, 2013

Book Notes – Owen King “Double Feature”

March 15, 2013

Book Notes – Tom Folsom “Hopper: A Journey into the American Dream”

Book Notes – Michelle Herman “Stories We Tell Ourselves”

March 14, 2013

Book Notes – Austin Ratner “In the Land of the Living”

Book Notes – Ben Miller “River Bend Chronicle”

March 13, 2013

Book Notes – Evan Roskos “Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets”

March 12, 2013

Book Notes – Poppy Gee “Bay of Fires”

March 8, 2013

Book Notes – Rajesh Parameswaran “I Am an Executioner: Love Stories”

Book Notes – Jamie Quatro “I Want To Show You More”

March 7, 2013

Book Notes – Marisa Silver “Mary Coin”

Book Notes – Ariel Djanikian “The Office of Mercy”

March 6, 2013

Book Notes – David McConnell “American Honor Killings”

March 1, 2013

Book Notes – Linda Olsson “The Memory of Love”

Book Notes – Joe David Bellamy “Green Freedom”

February 28, 2013

Book Notes – Aria Beth Sloss “Autobiography of Us”

Book Notes – Michael Lavigne “The Wanting”

February 27, 2013

Book Notes – Jim Gavin “Middle Men”

February 22, 2013

Book Notes – Christopher Castellani “All This Talk of Love”

Book Notes – Andrew Shaffer “Literary Rogues: A Scandalous History of Wayward Authors”

February 21, 2013

Book Notes – Christine Sneed “Little Known Facts”

Book Notes – Geneviève Castrée “Susceptible”

February 20, 2013

Book Notes – Louise Aronson “A History of the Present Illness”

February 19, 2013

Book Notes – Melissa Harrison “Clay”

February 18, 2013

Book Notes – Tanis Rideout “Above All Things”

February 15, 2013

Book Notes – Jamie Mason “Three Graves Full”

Book Notes – Randy Susan Meyers “The Comfort of Lies”

February 14, 2013

Book Notes – Michelle Orange “This Is Running for Your Life”

Book Notes – Joshua Mohr “Fight Song”

Book Notes – Amy Stewart, Caroline Leavitt, Christopher Castellani, Jill McCorkle,and Jonathan Evison’s Valentine’s Day Playlist

February 12, 2013

Book Notes – Teddy Wayne “The Love Song of Jonny Valentine”

February 8, 2013

Book Notes – Michael Heald “Goodbye to the Nervous Apprehension”

February 7, 2013

Book Notes – Carlene Bauer “Frances and Bernard”

February 6, 2013

Book Notes – David Shields “How Literature Saved My Life”

February 5, 2013

Book Notes – Sean Ferrell “Man in the Empty Suit”

February 1, 2013

Book Notes – Dina Nayeri “A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea”

January 31, 2013

Book Notes – Benjamin Nugent “Good Kids”

Book Notes – Margot Berwin “Scent of Darkness”

January 30, 2013

Book Notes – Amber Dermont “The Starboard Sea”

January 29, 2013

Book Notes – Ian Hamilton “The Disciple of Las Vegas”

January 25, 2013

Book Notes – Todd Hasak-Lowy “33 Minutes”

January 24, 2013

Book Notes – Sam Sheridan “The Disaster Diaries”

January 23, 2013

Book Notes – Ashok Rajamani “The Day My Brain Exploded”

January 22, 2013

Book Notes – Thomas Maltman “Little Wolves”

January 18, 2013

Book Notes – Emily Raboteau “Searching for Zion”

Book Notes – Jeff Backhaus “Hikikomori and the Rental Sister”

January 17, 2013

Book Notes – Matthew Vollmer “Inscriptions for Headstones”

Book Notes – Alex Danchev “Cezanne: A Life”

January 16, 2013

Book Notes – Lara Santoro “The Boy”

January 15, 2013

Book Notes – Adam Mansbach “Rage Is Back”

January 11, 2013

Book Notes – Ben Schrank “Love Is a Canoe”

Book Notes – Nicholas Montemarano “The Book of Why”

January 10, 2013

Book Notes – Hugh Sheehy “The Invisibles”

January 9, 2013

Book Notes – Marjorie Celona “Y”

January 8, 2013

Book Notes – Susan Steinberg “Spectacle”

January 4, 2013

Book Notes – David Abrams “Fobbit”

Book Notes – Nicholas Christopher “Tiger Rag”

January 3, 2013

Book Notes – Juliann Garey “Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See”

December 21, 2012

Book Notes – Camille Paglia “Glittering Images”

Book Notes – Cory Taylor “Me and Mr. Booker”

December 20, 2012

Book Notes – Chris Stedman “Faitheist”

December 18, 2012

Book Notes – Kris Saknussemm “Sea Monkeys”

December 14, 2012

Book Notes – George Singleton “Stray Decorum”

December 13, 2012

Book Notes – A.M. Homes “May We Be Forgiven”

Book Notes – Blake Butler “Sky Saw”

December 11, 2012

Book Notes – Will Davis “The Trapeze Artist”

December 7, 2012

Book Notes – Brett Hartman “Cadillac Chronicles”

December 6, 2012

Book Notes – Tony Fletcher “A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of the Smiths”

Book Notes – Stephanie LaCava “An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris”

December 4, 2012

Book Notes – Susannah Cahalan “Brain on Fire”

November 30, 2012

Book Notes – David Helwig “About Love: Three Stories by Anton Chekhov”

Book Notes – Bill Peters “Maverick Jetpants in The City of Quality”

November 29, 2012

Book Notes – Susan Vaught “Freaks Like Us”

Book Notes – Mark Brend “The Sound of Tomorrow: How Electronic Music Was Smuggled into the Mainstream”

November 28, 2012

Book Notes – Jay Neugeboren “The Other Side of the World”

November 21, 2012

Book Notes – T Cooper “Real Man Adventures”

Book Notes – Peter Trachtenberg “Another Insane Devotion”

November 16, 2012

Book Notes – Mark SaFranko “No Strings”

November 15, 2012

Book Notes – Julia Pandl “Memoir of the Sunday Brunch”

Book Notes – Brad Tolinski “Light and Shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page”

November 14, 2012

Book Notes – Diana Wagman “The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets”

November 13, 2012

Book Notes – Marie-Helene Bertino “Safe as Houses”

November 9, 2012

Book Notes – Richard Kramer “These Things Happen”

Book Notes – Ben Masters “Noughties”

November 8, 2012

Book Notes – Nick Harkaway “Angelmaker”

Book Notes – Barbara Shoup “An American Tune”

November 7, 2012

Book Notes – Peter Geye “The Lighthouse Road”

November 6, 2012

Book Notes – Sadie Stein “Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story”

November 2, 2012

Book Notes – Mary Stewart Atwell “Wild Girls”

Book Notes – Carlo Rotella “Playing in Time”

November 1, 2012

Book Notes – B.A. Shapiro “The Art Forger”

Book Notes – Joe Wilkins “Notes from the Journey Westward”

October 26, 2012

Book Notes – Jeanne Thornton “The Dream of Doctor Bantam”

Book Notes – Tod Davies “Lily the Silent”

October 25, 2012

Book Notes – Kathleen Rooney “Robinson Alone”

Book Notes – Caryn Rose “Raise Your Hand: Adventures of an American Springsteen Fan in Europe”

October 24, 2012

Book Notes – Tamara Faith Berger “Maidenhead”

October 23, 2012

Book Notes – Jami Attenberg “The Middlesteins”

October 19, 2012

Book Notes – Bronwen Hruska “Accelerated”

Book Notes – Dan Josefson “That’s Not a Feeling”

October 18, 2012

Book Notes – Daniel Waters “Break My Heart 1,000 Times”

Book Notes – Anne Elizabeth Moore “Hip Hop Apsara : Ghosts Past and Present”

October 17, 2012

Book Notes – Yael Kohen “We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy “

October 16, 2012

Book Notes – Elena Passarello “Let Me Clear My Throat”

October 12, 2012

Book Notes – Andrew Cotto “Outerborough Blues: A Brooklyn Mystery”

Book Notes – David Menconi “Ryan Adams: Losering, a Story of Whiskeytown”

October 11, 2012

Book Notes – Richard Beard “Lazarus is Dead”

Book Notes – Amber Sparks “May We Shed These Human Bodies”

October 10, 2012

Book Notes – “Sister Spit: Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road”

October 9, 2012

Book Notes – Don Bajema “Winged Shoes and a Shield: Collected Stories”

October 5, 2012

Book Notes – Laird Hunt “Kind One”

Book Notes – Mike Barnes “The Reasonable Ogre: Tales for the Sick and Well”

October 4, 2012

Book Notes – Eliot Schrefer “Endangered”

Book Notes – Joanna Luloff “The Beach at Galle Road”

October 3, 2012

Book Notes – James Meek “The Heart Broke In”

October 2, 2012

Book Notes – J. Robert Lennon “Familiar”

September 28, 2012

Book Notes – Sharma Shields “Favorite Monster”

Book Notes – Cynthia Carr “Fire in the Belly”

September 27, 2012

Book Notes – Mette Jakobsen “The Vanishing Act”

Book Notes – Josh Garrett-Davis “Ghost Dances”

September 26, 2012

Book Notes – Robert Anasi “The Last Bohemia”

September 25, 2012

Book Notes – Antoine Wilson “Panorama City”

September 21, 2012

Book Notes – Michael Kimball “Big Ray”

Book Notes – Paula Bomer “Nine Months”

September 20, 2012

Book Notes – Shani Boianjiu “The People of Forever Are Not Afraid”

Book Notes – George Minot “om love”

September 18, 2012

Book Notes – Sheila Heti “The Middle Stories” and “How Should a Person Be?”

September 14, 2012

Book Notes – Mat Johnson “Pym”

Book Notes – Gwenda Bond “Blackwood”

September 13, 2012

Book Notes – Tim Kreider “We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons”

Book Notes – Amy Leach “Things That Are”

September 12, 2012

Book Notes – Kathleen Alcott “The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets”

September 11, 2012

Book Notes – John Reed “Snowball’s Chance”

September 7, 2012

Book Notes – Andrew Porter “In Between Days”

Book Notes – Dan Wilbur “How Not to Read”

September 6, 2012

Book Notes – Morgan McCarthy “The Other Half of Me”

Book Notes – Jennifer Spiegel “Love Slave”

September 5, 2012

Book Notes – Ilie Ruby “The Salt God’s Daughter”

September 4, 2012

Book Notes – Emma Straub “Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures”

August 31, 2012

Book Notes – Marie Myung-Ok Lee “What My Son’s Disabilities Taught Me About ‘Having It All'”

Book Notes – Frank Anthony Polito “Lost in the ’90s”

August 30, 2012

Book Notes – Victor LaValle “The Devil in Silver”

Book Notes – Eric Nuzum “Giving Up the Ghost”

August 29, 2012

Book Notes – Paul Tremblay “Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye”

August 28, 2012

Book Notes – Benjamin Wood “The Bellwether Revivals”

August 24, 2012

Book Notes – Molly Ringwald “When It Happens to You”

Book Notes – Matthew Batt “Sugarhouse”

August 23, 2012

Book Notes – Shane Jones “Daniel Fights a Hurricane”

Book Notes – Scott McClanahan “The Collected Works of Scott McClanahan Vol. 1”

August 22, 2012

Book Notes – Maryanne O’Hara “Cascade”

August 17, 2012

Book Notes – Matthew Parker “Larceny in My Blood”

Book Notes – Miranda Mellis “The Spokes”

August 16, 2012

Book Notes – Emily Perkins “The Forrests”

Book Notes – Adam Braver “Misfit”

August 15, 2012

Book Notes – Leigh Stein “Dispatch from the Future”

August 14, 2012

Book Notes – Selma Dabbagh “Out of It”

August 13, 2012

Book Notes – Pauls Toutonghi “Evel Knievel Days”

August 10, 2012

Book Notes – Roshi Fernando “Homesick”

August 9, 2012

Book Notes – Charles Yu “Sorry Please Thank You”

Book Notes – Gregory Spatz “Inukshuk”

August 8, 2012

Book Notes – Katie Kitamura “Gone to the Forest”

August 7, 2012

Book Notes – Joshua Cohen “Four New Messages”

August 3, 2012

Book Notes – Amit Majmudar “Partitions”

Book Notes – “The Beautiful Anthology”

August 2, 2012

Book Notes – Claire Vaye Watkins “Battleborn”

Book Notes – Ben Ryder Howe “My Korean Deli”

August 1, 2012

Book Notes – Megan Abbott “Dare Me”

July 31, 2012

Book Notes – Padgett Powell “You & Me”

July 27, 2012

Book Notes – Nichole Bernier “The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.”

Book Notes – Joe Oestreich “Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor League Rock and Roll”

July 26, 2012

Book Notes – Tim Horvath “Understories”

Book Notes – Gina Apostol “Gun Dealers’ Daughter”

July 25, 2012

Book Notes – Colin Dickey “Afterlives of the Saints”

July 24, 2012

Book Notes – Michael Jeffrey Lee “Something in My Eye”

July 23, 2012

Book Notes – Pauline Chen “The Red Chamber”

July 20, 2012

Book Notes – Ted Sanders “No Animals We Could Name”

July 19, 2012

Book Notes – Karolina Waclawiak “How To Get Into the Twin Palms”

Book Notes – Carissa Phelps “Runaway Girl: Escaping Life on the Streets, One Helping Hand at a Time”

July 18, 2012

Book Notes – Joshua Henkin “The World Without You”

July 17, 2012

Book Notes – Carol Rifka Brunt “Tell the Wolves I’m Home”

July 13, 2012

Book Notes – Jennifer Spiegel “The Freak Chronicles”

Book Notes – Pamela Ribon “You Take It From Here”

July 12, 2012

Book Notes – Matt Dojny “The Festival of Earthly Delights”

Book Notes – Kaya Oakes “Radical Reinvention: An Unlikely Return to the Catholic Church”

July 11, 2012

Book Notes – Christian Kiefer “The Infinite Tides”

July 10, 2012

Book Notes – John Brandon “A Million Heavens”

July 6, 2012

Book Notes – Joe Meno “Office Girl”

Book Notes – Nathan Larson “The Nervous System”

July 5, 2012

Book Notes – Tara Altebrando “The Best Night of Your (Pathetic) Life”

Book Notes – J. R. Angelella “Zombie”

July 3, 2012

Book Notes – Barbara Browning “I’m Trying to Reach You”

June 29, 2012

Book Notes – David Yoo “The Choke Artist”

Book Notes – Larry Tye “Superman: The High-Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero”

June 28, 2012

Book Notes – Colleen Mondor “The Map of My Dead Pilots”

Book Notes – Ralph Pezzullo “Hunt the Wolf”

June 27, 2012

Book Notes – Anakana Schofield “Malarky”

June 26, 2012

Book Notes – Janet Groth “The Receptionist”

June 22, 2012

Book Notes – Christopher Coake “You Came Back”

Book Notes – Alexi Zentner “Touch”

June 21, 2012

Book Notes – James Conway “The Last Trade”

June 20, 2012

Book Notes – Aria Minu-Sepehr “We Heard the Heavens Then: A Memoir of Iran”

June 19, 2012

Book Notes – G. Willow Wilson “Alif the Unseen”

June 15, 2012

Book Notes – Christopher Beha “What Happened to Sophie Wilder”

Book Notes – Laura Boudreau “Suitable Precautions”

June 14, 2012

Book Notes – Gideon Lewis-Kraus “A Sense of Direction”

Book Notes – Robert McCammon “The Providence Rider”

June 13, 2012

Book Notes – Alix Ohlin “Inside”

June 12, 2012

Book Notes – William J. Cobb “The Bird Saviors”

June 8, 2012

Book Notes – Anne Korkeakivi “An Unexpected Guest”

Book Notes – Christopher Narozny “Jonah Man”

June 7, 2012

Book Notes – Paul Goldstein “Havana Requiem”

June 5, 2012

Book Notes – Lucia Perillo “Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain”

June 1, 2012

Book Notes – Corwin Ericson “Swell”

Book Notes – Matt Rees “Mozart’s Last Aria”

May 31, 2012

Book Notes – Kate Bornstein “A Queer and Pleasant Danger”

Book Notes – Rosie Sultan “Helen Keller in Love”

May 29, 2012

Book Notes – Dallas Hudgens “Wake Up, We’re Here”

May 25, 2012

Book Notes – Deni Y. Bechard “Vandal Love” and “Cures for Hunger”

Book Notes – Anne-Marie Kinney “Radio Iris”

Book Notes – Rosie Dastgir “A Small Fortune”

May 24, 2012

Book Notes – Cecil Castellucci “The Year of the Beasts”

Book Notes – Meg Howrey “The Cranes Dance”

May 23, 2012

Book Notes – Jeet Thayil “Narcopolis”

May 18, 2012

Book Notes – Brian Evenson “Windeye”

May 17, 2012

Book Notes – Isaac Adamson “Complication”

May 16, 2012

Book Notes – Amy Waldman “The Submission”

May 15, 2012

Book Notes – Emily St. John Mandel “The Lola Quartet”

May 11, 2012

Book Notes – Jennifer Miller “The Year of the Gadfly”

Book Notes – Nick Arvin “The Reconstructionist”

May 10, 2012

Book Notes – Alyson Hagy “Boleto”

Book Notes – Jac Jemc “My Only Wife”

May 9, 2012

Book Notes – Augusten Burroughs “This Is How”

May 8, 2012

Book Notes – Judith Kitchen “Half In Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate”

May 7, 2012

Book Notes – T.M. Wolf “Sound”

May 4, 2012

Book Notes – Dylan Hicks “Boarded Windows”

May 3, 2012

Book Notes – Lisa Brackmann “Getaway”

May 2, 2012

Book Notes – Simon Mawer “Trapeze”

May 1, 2012

Book Notes – Brandon W. Jones “All Woman and Springtime”

April 27, 2012

Book Notes – Jon McGregor “This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You”

Book Notes – Jon Raymond “Rain Dragon”

April 26, 2012

Book Notes – Michael Downs – “The Greatest Show”

Book Notes – Imran Ahmad – “The Perfect Gentleman: A Muslim Boy Meets the West”

April 25, 2012

Book Notes – Ben Tanzer “Lucky Man”

April 24, 2012

Book Notes – Seth Greenland “The Angry Buddhist”

April 20, 2012

Book Notes – Dan Barden “The Next Right Thing”

Book Notes – Janyce Stefan-Cole “Hollywood Boulevard”

Book Notes – Kirby Gann “Ghosting”

April 19, 2012

Book Notes – Rob Jovanovic “Seeing the Light: Inside the Velvet Underground “

April 18, 2012

Book Notes – Joe Schuster “The Might Have Been”

April 17, 2012

Book Notes – Jurgen Fauth “Kino”

April 16, 2012

Book Notes – Nick Dybek “When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man”

April 13, 2012

Book Notes – Eugene Cross “Fires of Our Choosing”

Book Notes – Seth Grahame-Smith “Unholy Night”

April 12, 2012

Book Notes – Ralph Sassone “The Intimates”

April 11, 2012

Book Notes – Matthew Gavin Frank “Pot Farm”

April 6, 2012

Book Notes – Naomi Benaron – “Running the Rift”

Book Notes – Jennifer duBois – “A Partial History of Lost Causes”

April 5, 2012

Book Notes – Megan Mayhew Bergman – “Birds of a Lesser Paradise”

Book Notes – Chiara Barzini – “Sister Stop Breathing”

April 4, 2012

Book Notes – Leela Corman – “Unterzakhn”

April 3, 2012

Book Notes – Jordan Stempleman – “No, Not Today”

March 30, 2012

Book Notes – Noah Hawley – “The Good Father”

Book Notes – Caroline Brothers – “Hinterland”

March 29, 2012

Book Notes – Peter Markus – “We Make Mud”

Book Notes – Derek McCulloch – “Gone to Amerikay”

March 28, 2012

Book Notes – Etgar Keret – “Suddenly, a Knock on the Door”

March 27, 2012

Book Notes – Matthew Forsythe – “Jinchalo”

March 23, 2012

Book Notes – Melissa Joulwan – “Well Fed: Paleo Recipes for People Who Love to Eat”

March 22, 2012

Book Notes – Jessica Maria Tuccelli – “Glow”

Book Notes – Tom Gauld – “Goliath”

March 21, 2012

Book Notes – Hari Kunzru – “Gods Without Men”

March 20, 2012

Book Notes – Kris D’Agostino – “The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac”

March 17, 2012

Book Notes – William Walsh – “Unknown Arts”

March 16, 2012

Book Notes – Adam Levin – “Hot Pink”

March 15, 2012

Book Notes – Heidi Julavits – “The Vanishers”

Book Notes – Miles Klee – “Ivyland”

March 14, 2012

Book Notes – Lauren Groff – “Arcadia”

March 13, 2012

Book Notes – Kevin Barry – “City of Bohane”

March 9, 2012

Book Notes – Austin Kleon – “Steal Like an Artist”

Book Notes – Joe Wilkins – “The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on The Big Dry”

March 8, 2012

Book Notes – Catherine Chung – “Forgotten Country”

Book Notes – Myfanwy Collins – “Echolocation”

March 7, 2012

Book Notes – Peter Behrens – “The O’Briens”

March 6, 2012

Book Notes – James Renner – “The Man from Primrose Lane”

March 2, 2012

Book Notes – Kevin Fox – “Until the Next Time”

March 1, 2012

Book Notes – Melissa Pritchard – “The Odditorium”

Book Notes – Erin O’Brien – “The Irish Hungarian Guide to the Domestic Arts”

February 29, 2012

Book Notes – Margot Livesey – “The Flight of Gemma Hardy”

February 28, 2012

Book Notes – Nick Antosca – “The Obese”

February 24, 2012

Book Notes – Diane Williams – “Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty”

Book Notes – Jenna Le – “Six Rivers”

February 23, 2012

Book Notes – Ramona Ausubel – “No One is Here Except All of Us”

February 22, 2012

Book Notes – Sara Benincasa – “Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom”

February 17, 2012

Book Notes – Ayad Akhtar – “American Dervish”

Book Notes – Mike Doughty – “The Book of Drugs”

February 16, 2012

Book Notes – Elizabeth Hand – “Available Dark”

Book Notes – Frank Bill – “Crimes in Southern Indiana”

February 15, 2012

Book Notes – Will Hermes – “Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever”

February 14, 2012

Book Notes – Tupelo Hassman – “Girlchild”

February 10, 2012

Book Notes – Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral – “Chopsticks”

February 9, 2012

Book Notes – Josh Bazell – “Wild Thing”

February 8, 2012

Book Notes – Katie Ward – “Girl Reading”

February 7, 2012

Book Notes – Dan Chaon – “Stay Awake”

February 3, 2012

Book Notes – Steve Erickson – “These Dreams of You”

February 2, 2012

Book Notes – Alan Glynn – “Bloodland”

February 1, 2012

Book Notes – Courtney Taylor-Taylor – “One Model Nation”

January 31, 2012

Book Notes – Hanne Blank – “Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality”

January 27, 2012

Book Notes – Keshni Kashyap – “Tina’s Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary”

January 26, 2012

Book Notes – Bret Lott “Dead Low Tide”

January 25, 2012

Book Notes – Stewart O’Nan “The Odds: A Love Story”

January 24, 2012

Book Notes – George Pelecanos “What It Was”

January 19, 2012

Book Notes – Ben Marcus “The Flame Alphabet”

January 18, 2012

Book Notes – Shalom Auslander “Hope: A Tragedy”

January 13, 2012

Book Notes – Daniel O’Malley “The Rook”

January 12, 2012

Book Notes – Leigh Stein “The Fallback Plan”

Book Notes – Trinie Dalton “Baby Geisha”

January 11, 2012

Book Notes – Alex Gilvarry “From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant”

January 10, 2012

Book Notes – Jessica Keener “Night Swim”

January 6, 2012

Book Notes – Kevin Grange “Beneath Blossom Rain”

January 5, 2012

Book Notes – Caitlin Horrocks “This Is Not Your City”

Book Notes – Will Boast “Power Ballads”

January 4, 2012

Book Notes – Adam Christopher “Empire State”

January 3, 2012

Book Notes – Ryan Boudinot “Blueprints of the Afterlife”

December 22, 2011

Book Notes – John Jodzio (“Get In If You Want To Live”)

December 21, 2011

Book Notes – Jason Gilmore and John Porcellino “The Next Day”

December 20, 2011

Book Notes – Lisa Rogak “And Nothing but the Truthiness: The Rise (and Further Rise) of Stephen Colbert”

December 18, 2011

Book Notes – Rebecca Guay “A Flight of Angels”

December 13, 2011

Book Notes – Eduardo Jiménez Mayo and Chris N. Brown “Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic”

December 9, 2011

Book Notes – Sabina Murray “Tales of the New World”

December 8, 2011

Book Notes – Sara Levine “Treasure Island!!!”

Book Notes – Richard Poplak “KENK”

December 2, 2011

Book Notes – Philip Hensher (“King of the Badgers”)

December 1, 2011

Book Notes – Mickey Hess “The Nostalgia Echo”

November 30, 2011

Book Notes – Lou Beach (“420 Characters”)

November 29, 2011

Book Notes – Laura Ellen Scott (“Death Wishing”)

November 23, 2011

Book Notes – Stephen Beachy “boneyard”

November 22, 2011

Book Notes – Lenore Zion “My Dead Pets Are Interesting”

November 18, 2011

Book Notes – Joe Woodward (“Alive Inside the Wreck: A Biography of Nathanael West”)

November 17, 2011

Book Notes – Marzena Sowa “Marzi”

Book Notes – Peter Bebergal (“Too Much to Dream”)

November 16, 2011

Book Notes – Leora Skolkin-Smith “Hystera”

November 11, 2011

Book Notes – Hillary Jordan (“When She Woke”)

Book Notes – Trevor R. Getz “Abina and the Important Men”

November 10, 2011

Book Notes – Ben Ehrenreich (“Ether”)

Book Notes – Courtney E. Smith (“Record Collecting for Girls”)

November 8, 2011

Book Notes – Steve Almond (“God Bless America”)

November 4, 2011

Book Notes – Christopher Kennedy (“Ennui Prophet”)

November 3, 2011

Book Notes – Richard Polsky (“The Art Prophets”)

Book Notes – Joe Wilkins (“Killing the Murnion Dogs”)

November 2, 2011

Book Notes – Keith Cronin (“Me Again”)

November 1, 2011

Book Notes – Ken Denmead (“The Geek Dad Book for Aspiring Mad Scientists”)

October 28, 2011

Book Notes – Donia Bijan “Maman’s Homesick Pie”

Book Notes – Geoff Hyatt (“Birch Hills at World’s End”)

October 27, 2011

Book Notes – Mark Yarm (“Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge”)

Book Notes – Anne Elizabeth Moore (“Cambodian Grrrl”)

October 26, 2011

Book Notes – Martha Southgate (“The Taste of Salt”)

October 25, 2011

Book Notes – Joshua Mohr (“Damascus”)

October 21, 2011

Book Notes – Ismet Prcic (“Shards”)

Book Notes – John Warner – “The Funny Man”

October 20, 2011

Book Notes – Christopher Bollen (“Lightning People”)

Book Notes – Paul Maliszewski (“Prayer and Parable”)

October 19, 2011

Book Notes – Sara Zarr “How to Save a Life”

October 18, 2011

Book Notes – Joshua Cody “[sic]”

October 14, 2011

Book Notes – Lawrence Douglas (“The Vices”)

Book Notes – Sarah Wendell (“Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Romance Novels”)

October 13, 2011

Book Notes – Michael Hearst (“The Recipe Project”)

Book Notes – David Lester (“The Listener”)

October 12, 2011

Book Notes – Stephen Wetta (“If Jack’s in Love”)

October 11, 2011

Book Notes – Tyler McMahon (“How the Mistakes Were Made”)

October 7, 2011

Book Notes – Hector Tobar (“The Barbarian Nurseries”)

Book Notes – Tony D’Souza (“Mule”)

October 6, 2011

Book Notes – Thomas Mullen (“The Revisionists”)

Book Notes – Kirsten Kaschock (“Sleight”)

October 5, 2011

Book Notes – Tom Piazza (“Devil Sent the Rain”)

October 4, 2011

Book Notes – Greg Olear (“Fathermucker”)

Book Notes – John Sellers (“The Old Man and the Swamp”)

September 30, 2011

Book Notes – Touré (“Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?”)

Book Notes – Caryn Rose (“B-Sides and Broken Hearts”)

Book Notes – James Whorton (“Angela Sloan”)

September 29, 2011

Book Notes – Ben H. Winters (“Bedbugs”)

Book Notes – Jesse Browner (“Everything Happens Today”)

September 28, 2011

Book Notes – Laurel Snyder (“Bigger than a Bread Box”)

Book Notes – Christopher Boucher (“How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive”)

September 27, 2011

Book Notes – Katherine Anne Kindred (“An Accidental Mother”)

September 23, 2011

Book Notes – Kio Stark (“Follow Me Down”)

September 22, 2011

Book Notes – Sam Savage (“Glass”)

Book Notes – Jeffrey Yang (“Vanishing-Line”)

September 21, 2011

Book Notes – Matt Haig (“The Radleys”)

Book Notes – John Dalton (“The Inverted Forest”)

September 20, 2011

Book Notes – Tahmima Anam (“The Good Muslim”)

September 16, 2011

Book Notes – Bonnie Nadzam (“Lamb”)

Book Notes – Nikolai Grozni (“Wunderkind”)

September 15, 2011

Book Notes – Sebastian Barry (“On Canaan’s Side”)

Book Notes – Jillian Lauren (“Pretty”)

September 14, 2011

Book Notes – Susan Vaught (“Going Underground”)

September 13, 2011

Book Notes – Erin Morgenstern (“The Night Circus”)

Book Notes – John Franc (“Hooked”)

September 9, 2011

Book Notes – Ana Menendez (“Adios, Happy Homeland”)

September 8, 2011

Book Notes – Drew Magary (“The Postmortal”)

Book Notes – Ben Lerner (“Leaving the Atocha Station”)

September 6, 2011

Book Notes – Gerry Hadden (“Never the Hope Itself”)

September 2, 2011

Book Notes – Stuart Nadler (“The Book of Life”)

Book Notes – Dan Fante (“Fante: A Family’s Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving”)

September 1, 2011

Book Notes – Alexander Maksik (“You Deserve Nothing”)

Book Notes – Steve Brezenoff (“Brooklyn, Burning”)

August 31, 2011

Book Notes – Jacques Strauss (“The Dubious Salvation of Jack V.”)

August 30, 2011

Book Notes – George Pelecanos (“The Cut”)

August 26, 2011

Book Notes – Alex Shakar (“Luminarium”)

Book Notes – Henry Sutton (“Get Me Out of Here”)

August 25, 2011

Book Notes – Matthew Norman (“Domestic Violets”)

Book Notes – Cathy Stonehouse (“Something About the Animal”)

August 24, 2011

Book Notes – Evan Mandery (“Q”)

August 23, 2011

Book Notes – Myla Goldberg (“The False Friend”)

August 19, 2011

Book Notes – Lev Grossman (“The Magician King”)

Book Notes – Kevin Wilson (“The Family Fang”)

August 18, 2011

Book Notes – Ernest Cline (“Ready Player One”)

Book Notes – Richard C. Morais (“The Hundred-Foot Journey”)

August 16, 2011

Book Notes – Kevin Fenton (“Merit Badges”)

August 12, 2011

Book Notes – Sheila Kohler (“Love Child”)

August 11, 2011

Book Notes – Chika Unigwe (“On Black Sisters Street”)

August 10, 2011

Book Notes – Sebastian Rotella (“Triple Crossing”)

August 9, 2011

Book Notes – Karen Russell (“Swamplandia”)

August 5, 2011

Book Notes – Nathan Larson (“The Dewey Decimal System”)

Book Notes – Yvonne Prinz (“The Vinyl Princess”)

August 4, 2011

Book Notes – John Minichillo (“The Snow Whale”)

August 3, 2011

Book Notes – Francis Levy (“Seven Days in Rio”)

August 2, 2011

Book Notes – Will Lavender (“Dominance”)

July 29, 2011

Book Notes – Evelyn Toynton (“The Oriental Wife”)

July 28, 2011

Book Notes – Clyde Edgerton (“The Night Train”)

July 27, 2011

Book Notes – Miroslav Penkov (“East of the West”)

July 26, 2011

Book Notes – Blake Butler (“There Is No Year”)

July 22, 2011

Book Notes – Edie Meidav (“Lola, California”)

Book Notes – Chad Kultgen (“Men, Women & Children”)

July 21, 2011

Book Notes – Kate Christensen (“The Astral”)

Book Notes – Jesse Ball (“The Village on Horseback: Prose and Verse, 2003-2008”)

July 20, 2011

Book Notes – Deborah Kay Davies (“True Things About Me”)

July 19, 2011

Book Notes – Melissa Febos (“Whip Smart”)

July 15, 2011

Book Notes – Eva Hoffman (“Appassionata”)

Book Notes – Amy Martin (“Symphony City”)

July 14, 2011

Book Notes – Ann Joslin Williams (“Down from Cascom Mountain”)

Book Notes – Mark Billingham (“Bloodline”)

July 13, 2011

Book Notes – Reif Larsen (“The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet”)

July 12, 2011

Book Notes – Dawn Tripp (“Game of Secrets”)

July 8, 2011

Book Notes – Dean Bakopoulos (“My American Unhappiness”)

Book Notes – Nick Krieger (“Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender”)

July 7, 2011

Book Notes – Megan Abbott (“The End of Everything”)

Book Notes – Seth Fried (“The Great Frustration”)

July 5, 2011

Book Notes – Constance Squires (“Along the Watchtower”)

July 1, 2011

Book Notes – Michael Kimball (“Us”)

June 30, 2011

Book Notes – Will Allison (“Long Drive Home”)

June 29, 2011

Book Notes – Alina Bronsky (“The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine”)

June 28, 2011

Book Notes – Josh Ritter (“Bright’s Passage”)

June 24, 2011

Book Notes – Ofelia Hunt (“Today & Tomorrow”)

June 23, 2011

Book Notes – Shann Ray (“American Masculine”)

Book Notes – Myriam Gurba (“Wish You Were Me”)

June 21, 2011

Book Notes – John Milliken Thompson (“The Reservoir”)

June 17, 2011

Book Notes – James Boice (“The Good and the Ghastly”)

Book Notes – Thien Pham (“Level Up”)

June 16, 2011

Book Notes – Jesse Ball (“The Curfew”)

Book Notes – Michael Robotham (“The Wreckage”)

June 15, 2011

Book Notes – Lee Martin (“Break the Skin”)

June 10, 2011

Book Notes – Tayari Jones (“Silver Sparrow”)

Book Notes – Kevin Desinger (“The Descent of Man”)

June 9, 2011

Book Notes – Laura Dave (“The First Husband”)

Book Notes – Eleanor Henderson (“Ten Thousand Saints”)

June 8, 2011

Book Notes – David Anthony (“Something for Nothing”)

June 7, 2011

Book Notes – Alina Simone (“You Must Go and Win”)

June 3, 2011

Book Notes – Nick Mamatas (“Sensation”)

Book Notes – Jason Thompson (“King of RPGS 2”)

June 2, 2011

Book Notes – Daniel Orozco (“Orientation”)

Book Notes – Richard Horan (“Seeds: One Man’s Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees That Inspired Famous American Writers from Faulkner to Kerouac, Welty to Wharton”)

June 1, 2011

Book Notes – Kevin Brockmeier (“The Illumination”)

May 31, 2011

Book Notes – Jael McHenry (“The Kitchen Daughter”)

May 27, 2011

Book Notes – Scott Sparling (“Wire to Wire”)

May 26, 2011

Book Notes – Bill Loehfelm (“The Devil She Knows”)

May 25, 2011

Book Notes – Melanie Rae Thon (“In This Light: New & Selected Stories”)

May 24, 2011

Book Notes – Vanessa Veselka (“Zazen”)

May 20, 2011

Book Notes – Rahul Bhattacharya (“The Sly Company of People Who Care”)

Book Notes – Tara Altebrando (“Dreamland Social Club”)

May 19, 2011

Book Notes – Amy Stewart (“Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon’s Army & Other Diabolical Insects”)

Book Notes – Jeff Kass (“Knuckleheads”)

May 18, 2011

Book Notes – Henning Koch (“Love Doesn’t Work”)

May 17, 2011

Book Notes – Sarah Winman (“When God Was a Rabbit”)

May 13, 2011

Book Notes – Wilfred Santiago (“21: The Story of Roberto Clemente”)

Book Notes – Bill Peschel (“Writers Gone Wild”)

May 12, 2011

Book Notes – Meghan O’Rourke (“The Long Goodbye”)

Book Notes – Maria Dahvana Headley (“Queen of Kings”)

May 11, 2011

Book Notes – Rachel DeWoskin (“Big Girl Small”)

May 10, 2011

Book Notes – Christie Watson (“Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away”)

May 6, 2011

Book Notes – Emma Forrest (“Your Voice in My Head”)

Book Notes – Monique Roffey (“The White Woman on the Green Bicycle”)

Book Notes – John Corey Whaley (“Where Things Come Back”)

May 5, 2011

Book Notes – Sophia Rosenfeld (“Common Sense: A Political History”)

Book Notes – Kim Culbertson (“Instructions for a Broken Heart”)

May 4, 2011

Book Notes – R. Zamora Linmark (“Leche”)

May 3, 2011

Book Notes – Rikki Ducornet (“Netsuke”)

April 29, 2011

Book Notes – Janice Eidus (“The Last Jewish Virgin”)

Book Notes – A.J. Somerset (“Combat Camera”)

April 28, 2011

Book Notes – Daniel Kraus (“Rotters”)

Book Notes – Paul Lisicky (“The Burning House”)

April 27, 2011

Book Notes – Aimee Bender (“The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”)

April 26, 2011

Book Notes – Steve Himmer (“The Bee-Loud Glade”)

April 22, 2011

Book Notes – Tod Davies (“Snotty Saves the Day: The History of Arcadia”)

April 21, 2011

Book Notes – Adam Ross (“Mr. Peanut”)

Book Notes – Brian Allen Carr (“Short Bus”)

April 20, 2011

Book Notes – Anuradha Roy (“An Atlas of Impossible Longing”)

April 19, 2011

Book Notes – Timothy Schaffert (“The Coffins of Little Hope”)

April 15, 2011

Book Notes – Alexander MacLeod (“Light Lifting”)

Book Notes – Weston Cutter (“You’d Be a Stranger, Too”)

April 14, 2011

Book Notes – Francisco Goldman (“Say Her Name”)

Book Notes – Jeff Gillenkirk (“Home, Away”)

April 12, 2011

Book Notes – William Lychack (“The Architect of Flowers”)

April 7, 2011

Book Notes – Various Authors (“Re: Telling”)

April 6, 2011

Book Notes – Jim Krusoe (“Toward You”)

April 5, 2011

Book Notes – Claudia Sternbach (“Reading Lips: A Memoir of Kisses”)

April 1, 2011

Book Notes – Ryan Van Meter (“If You Knew Then What I Know Now”)

Book Notes – Bathsheba Monk (“Nude Walker”)

March 31, 2011

Book Notes – Meg Howrey (“Blind Sight”)

Book Notes – Manuel Munoz (“What You See in the Dark”)

March 30, 2011

Book Notes – David Bezmozgis (“The Free World”)

March 29, 2011

Book Notes – Michael Crummey (“Galore”)

March 25, 2011

Book Notes – Jewly Hight (“Right by Her Roots: Americana Women and Their Songs”)

March 24, 2011

Book Notes – Kris Saknussemm (“Enigmatic Pilot: A Tall Tale Too True”)

March 22, 2011

Book Notes – Camilla Gibb (“The Beauty of Humanity Movement”)

March 18, 2011

Book Notes – Cara Hoffman (“So Much Pretty”)

Book Notes – Ron Tanner (“Kiss Me, Stranger”)

March 17, 2011

Book Notes – Jonathan Evison (“West of Here”)

Book Notes – MariNaomi (“Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22”)

March 15, 2011

Book Notes – Jenny Shank (“The Ringer”)

March 11, 2011

Book Notes – Jonathan Coe (“The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim”)

Book Notes – Alan Heathcock (“Volt”)

March 10, 2011

Book Notes – Jon Michaud (“When Tito Loved Clara”)

Book Notes – Roy Kesey (“Pacazo”)

March 9, 2011

Book Notes – Eileen Myles (“Inferno”)

March 8, 2011

Book Notes – Susannah Gora (“You Couldn’t Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation”)

March 4, 2011

Book Notes – Jamie Iredell – (“The Book of Freaks”)

March 3, 2011

Book Notes – Lisa Catherine Harper (“A Double Life, Discovering Motherhood”)

Book Notes – Blake Nelson (“Recovery Road”)

March 2, 2011

Book Notes – Randy Susan Meyers (“The Murderer’s Daughters”)

February 25, 2011

Book Notes – Jessica Anya Blau (“Drinking Closer to Home”)

Book Notes – David Shields (“Reality Hunger”)

February 24, 2011

Book Notes – Emma Straub (“Other People We Married”)

Book Notes – Kathleen Winter (“Annabel”)

February 23, 2011

Book Notes – Margaret Roach (“And I Shall Have Some Peace There: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road”)

February 22, 2011

Book Notes – Teju Cole (“Open City”)

February 18, 2011

Book Notes – Susan Conley (“The Foremost Good Fortune”)

Book Notes – Summer Wood (“Wrecker”)

February 17, 2011

Book Notes – Craig Lancaster (“The Summer Son”)

February 16, 2011

Book Notes – Ben Tarnoff (“Moneymakers: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Notorious Counterfeiters”)

February 15, 2011

Book Notes – Stacy Pershall (“Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl”)

February 14, 2011

Book Notes – David Levithan (“The Lover’s Dictionary”)

February 11, 2011

Book Notes – Adam Haslett (“Union Atlantic”)

Book Notes – Deb Olin Unferth (“Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War”)

February 10, 2011

Book Notes – Rebecca Hunt (“Mr. Chartwell”)

Book Notes – Gabriel Ba (“Daytripper”)

February 9, 2011

Book Notes – Deborah Harkness (“A Discovery of Witches”)

February 8, 2011

Book Notes – Justin Taylor (“The Gospel of Anarchy”)

February 3, 2011

Book Notes – Alison Espach (“The Adults”)

Book Notes – Sean Beaudoin (“You Killed Wesley Payne”)

February 2, 2011

Book Notes – Sarah Bakewell (“How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer”)

February 1, 2011

Book Notes – Wesley Stace (“Charles Jessold: Considered as a Murderer”)

January 28, 2011

Book Notes – Thaisa Frank (“Heidegger’s Glasses”)

January 27, 2011

Book Notes – Becca Klaver (“LA Liminal”)

January 25, 2011

Book Notes – Caroline Leavitt (“Pictures of You”)

January 21, 2011

Book Notes – Victor David Giron (“Sophomoric Philosophy”)

January 20, 2011

Book Notes – Bryan Charles (“There’s a Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came From”)

January 19, 2011

Book Notes – Jeff VanderMeer (“The Third Bear”)

January 18, 2011

Book Notes – Barry Lyga (“Goth Girl Rising”)

January 14, 2011

Book Notes – Sonya Huber (“Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir”)

January 13, 2011

Book Notes – Eva Talmadge (“The Words to Every Song: Tattoos That Rock”)

Book Notes – Jeremy Page (“Sea Change”)

January 7, 2011

Book Notes – Sean Manning (“The Things That Need Doing”)

January 5, 2011

Book Notes – Mike Young (“Look! Look! Feathers”)

December 22, 2010

Book Notes – Diana Balmori (“A Landscape Manifesto”)

December 21, 2010

Book Notes – Paula Bomer (“Baby & Other Stories”)

December 16, 2010

Book Notes – Mark SaFranko (“Hating Olivia”)

December 9, 2010

Book Notes – Rob Roberge (“Working Backwards from the Worst Moment of My Life”)

December 3, 2010

Book Notes – Peter Conners (“White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg”)

November 24, 2010

Book Notes – Lindsay Hunter (“Daddy’s”)

November 23, 2010

Book Notes – Janice Shapiro (“Bummer”)

November 19, 2010

Book Notes – Deborah Willis (“Vanishing and Other Stories”)

November 18, 2010

Book Notes – Xu Xi (“Habit of a Foreign Sky”)

November 17, 2010

Book Notes – Sean Ferrell (“Numb”)

November 12, 2010

Book Notes – Adam Bertocci (“Two Gentlemen of Lebowski”)

Book Notes – Allan Metcalf (“OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word”)

November 11, 2010

Book Notes – Martin Millar (“Lonely Werewolf Girl” & “Curse of the Wolf Girl”)

Book Notes – Patrick Somerville (“The Universe in Miniature in Miniature”)

November 10, 2010

Book Notes – Abby Sher (“Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn’t Stop Praying (Among Other Things)”)

November 9, 2010

Book Notes – Betsy Carter (“The Puzzle King”)

November 5, 2010

Book Notes – Alex Lemon (“Happy”)

Book Notes – Laurie Hertzel (“News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist”)

November 4, 2010

Book Notes – Various Authors (“My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales”)

Book Notes – Jessica Francis Kane (“The Report”)

November 3, 2010

Book Notes – Anne Trubek (“A Skeptic’s Guide to Writers’ Houses”)

November 2, 2010

Book Notes – Anthony De Sa (“Barnacle Love”)

October 29, 2010

Book Notes – Lee Sandlin (“Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild”)

Book Notes – Steve Brezenoff (“The Absolute Value of -1”)

October 28, 2010

Book Notes – Julie Klam (“You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness”)

Book Notes – Kevin Guilfoile (“The Thousand”)

Book Notes – May-lee Chai (“Dragon Chica”)

October 26, 2010

Book Notes – Adam Levin (“The Instructions”)

October 22, 2010

Book Notes – Patrick Hennessey (“The Junior Officers’ Reading Club”)

Book Notes – Holly Karapetkova (“Words We Might One Day Say”)

October 21, 2010

Book Notes – Jonathan Dee (“The Privileges”)

Book Notes – Matt Bell (“How They Were Found”)

October 20, 2010

Book Notes – Jay Varner (“Nothing Left to Burn”)

October 19, 2010

Book Notes – David Bajo (“Panopticon”)

October 15, 2010

Book Notes – Zachary Lipez (“Please Take Me Off the Guest List”)

Book Notes – Paul Tremblay (“In the Mean Time”)

October 14, 2010

Book Notes – Joyce Hinnefeld (“Stranger Here Below”)

October 13, 2010

Book Notes – Emily Gray Tedrowe (“Commuters”)

October 12, 2010

Book Notes – Nels Cline (“Dirty Baby”)

October 8, 2010

Book Notes – Susan Henderson (“Up from the Blue”)

Book Notes – Laurel Snyder (“Penny Dreadful”)

October 7, 2010

Book Notes – Camille DeAngelis (“Petty Magic”)

Book Notes – Eric Gansworth (“Extra Indians”)

October 6, 2010

Book Notes – Stuart Neville (“Collusion”)

October 5, 2010

Book Notes – Terese Svoboda (“Pirate Talk or Mermalade”)

October 1, 2010

Book Notes – Simon Goddard (“Mozipedia: The Encyclopedia of Morrissey and The Smiths”)

Book Notes – Tina Hall (“The Physics of Imaginary Objects”)

September 30, 2010

Book Notes – Benjamin Percy (“The Wilding”)

Book Notes – Joseph Skibell (“A Curable Romantic”)

September 29, 2010

Book Notes – Peter Geye (“Safe from the Sea”)

September 28, 2010

Book Notes – Alex Ross (“Listen to This”)

September 24, 2010

Book Notes – Paul Murray (“Skippy Dies”)

Book Notes – Matthew Sharpe (“You Were Wrong”)

September 23, 2010

Book Notes – Ben Tanzer (“99 Problems”)

September 21, 2010

Book Notes – Charles Yu (“How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe”)

September 17, 2010

Book Notes – Kim Culbertson (“Songs for a Teenage Nomad”)

September 16, 2010

Book Notes – Lane Smith (“It’s a Book”)

Book Notes – Dean Haspiel (“Cuba: My Revolution”)

September 15, 2010

Book Notes – Jessica Treadway (“Please Come Back To Me”)

September 14, 2010

Book Notes – David Macinnis Gill (“Black Hole Sun”)

September 10, 2010

Book Notes – Emma Rathbone (“The Patterns of Paper Monsters”)

September 9, 2010

Book Notes – Rosecrans Baldwin (“You Lost Me There”)

Book Notes – Steven Gillis (“The Consequence of Skating”)

September 8, 2010

Book Notes – Annabel Lyon (“The Golden Mean”)

September 7, 2010

Book Notes – Tao Lin (“Richard Yates”)

September 3, 2010

Book Notes – Grace Krilanovich (“The Orange Eats Creeps”)

Book Notes – Kate Bernheimer (“Horse, Flower, Bird”)

September 2, 2010

Book Notes – Andrew Ervin (“Extraordinary Renditions”)

September 1, 2010

Book Notes – John Reimringer (“Vestments”)

August 31, 2010

Book Notes – Monique Truong (“Bitter in the Mouth”)

August 27, 2010

Book Notes – Adam Langer (“The Thieves of Manhattan”)

Book Notes – Amitava Kumar (“Nobody Does the Right Thing”)

August 26, 2010

Book Notes – Brian DeLeeuw (“In This Way I Was Saved”)

August 25, 2010

Book Notes – Neela Vaswani (“You Have Given Me a Country”)

August 24, 2010

Book Notes – Kristin Hersh (“Rat Girl”)

August 20, 2010

Book Notes – Kurtis Scaletta (“Mamba Point”)

Book Notes – Mat Johnson (“Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story”)

August 19, 2010

Book Notes – Paul Jessup (“Werewolves”)

August 18, 2010

Book Notes – Chris Binchy (“Five Days Apart”)

August 17, 2010

Book Notes – John Reed (“Tales of Woe”)

August 13, 2010

Book Notes – Tanya Egan Gibson (“How to Buy a Love of Reading”)

August 12, 2010

Book Notes – Kirk Farber (“Postcards from a Dead Girl”)

August 11, 2010

Book Notes – Jason Hartley (“The Advanced Genius Theory”)

August 10, 2010

Book Notes – Zoe Ferraris (“City of Veils”)

Book Notes – Rosanne Cash (“Composed”)

August 6, 2010

Book Notes – Mark Haskell Smith (“Baked”)

August 5, 2010

Book Notes – Rachel Shukert (“Everything Is Going to Be Great”)

Book Notes – Brandi Homan (“Bobcat Country”)

August 4, 2010

Book Notes – Adam Thirlwell (“The Escape”)

August 3, 2010

Book Notes – J.C. Hallman (“In Utopia”)

July 30, 2010

Book Notes – Willy Vlautin (“Lean on Pete”)

Book Notes – Adam Rex (“Fat Vampire”)

July 29, 2010

Book Notes – Justin Kramon’s Own Music for Finny

Book Notes – Cathy Malkasian (“Temperance”)

July 28, 2010

Book Notes – Tony O’Neill (“Sick City”)

July 27, 2010

Book Notes – Andrew Beahrs (“Twain’s Feast”)

July 23, 2010

Book Notes – Gina Frangello (“Slut Lullabies”)

July 22, 2010

Book Notes – Jon Clinch (“Kings of the Earth”)

Book Notes – Matt Kindt (“Revolver”)

July 21, 2010

Book Notes – James Kaelan (“We’re Getting On”)

July 20, 2010

Book Notes – Lou Anders and Various Authors (“Masked”)

July 16, 2010

Book Notes – Carey Wallace (“The Blind Contessa’s New Machine”)

July 15, 2010

Book Notes – Jim Knipfel (“These Children Who Come at You with Knives, and Other Fairy Tales”)

Book Notes – Doug Dorst (“The Surf Guru”)

July 14, 2010

Book Notes – Matt Stewart (“The French Revolution”)

July 13, 2010

Book Notes – Justin Kramon (“Finny”)

July 9, 2010

Book Notes – Zoe Zolbrod (“Currency”)

Book Notes – Erin Keane (“Death-Defying Acts”)

July 8, 2010

Book Notes – Lee Rourke (“The Canal”)

July 7, 2010

Book Notes – Suzanne Rivecca (“Death Is Not an Option”)

July 6, 2010

Book Notes – Various Authors (“Best of the Web 2010”)

July 2, 2010

Book Notes – Joshua Mohr (“Termite Parade”)

July 1, 2010

Book Notes – John Brandon (“Citrus County”)

June 29, 2010

Book Notes – David A. Taylor (“Soul of a People”)

June 25, 2010

Book Notes – Kate Rockland (“Falling Is Like This”)

June 24, 2010

Book Notes – Marcy Dermansky (“Bad Marie”)

June 23, 2010

Book Notes – Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud & Edward Gauvin (“A Life on Paper”)

June 22, 2010

Book Notes – Eric Rauchway (“Banana Republican: From the Buchanan File”)

June 18, 2010

Book Notes – Sonya Chung (“Long for This World”)

Book Notes – Alex Taylor (“The Name of the Nearest River”)

June 17, 2010

Book Notes – James P. Othmer (“Holy Water”)

Book Notes – Christian TeBordo (“The Awful Possibilities”)

June 16, 2010

Book Notes – William Alexander (“52 Loaves”)

June 15, 2010

Book Notes – Joshua Dysart and Cliff Chiang (“Neil Young’s Greendale”)

June 10, 2010

Book Notes – Ben Greenman (“What He’s Poised to Do”)

Book Notes – Howard Cruse (“Stuck Rubber Baby”)

June 9, 2010

Book Notes – Michael Koryta (“So Cold the River”)

June 8, 2010

Book Notes – Mishna Wolff (“I’m Down”)

June 4, 2010

Book Notes – Teddy Wayne (“Kapitoil”)

Book Notes – Barbara K. Richardson (“Guest House”)

June 3, 2010

Book Notes – G. Willow Wilson (“The Butterfly Mosque”)

June 2, 2010

Book Notes – Joshua Braff (“Peep Show”)

June 1, 2010

Book Notes – Deborah Noyes (“Captivity”)

May 28, 2010

Book Notes – Belle Boggs (“Mattaponi Queen”)

Book Notes – Ted Mooney (“The Same River Twice”)

May 27, 2010

Book Notes – Jillian Lauren (“Some Girls: My Life in a Harem”)

Book Notes – Steven Polansky (“The Bradbury Report”)

May 26, 2010

Book Notes – Gayle Brandeis (“My Life with the Lincolns”)

May 25, 2010

Book Notes – Tom Jokinen (“Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training”)

May 21, 2010

Book Notes – Katie Arnoldi (“Point Dume”)

May 20, 2010

Book Notes – Evgenia Citkowitz (“Ether”)

Book Notes – Chris Roberson and Mike Allred (“iZombie”)

May 19, 2010

Book Notes – David Henry Sterry (“The Glorious World Cup: A Fanatic’s Guide”)

May 18, 2010

Book Notes – Lisa Jones (“Broken: A Love Story”)

May 14, 2010

Book Notes – Elizabeth Hand (“Illyria”)

Book Notes – Pamela Ribon (“Going in Circles”)

May 13, 2010

Book Notes – Wendy Burden (“Dead End Gene Pool”)

May 12, 2010

Book Notes – Miguel Syjuco (“Ilustrado”)

May 11, 2010

Book Notes – Joe Wallace (“Diamond Ruby”)

May 7, 2010

Book Notes – Emily St. John Mandel (“The Singer’s Gun”)

Book Notes – Keith Lee Morris (“Call It What You Want”)

May 6, 2010

Book Notes – Daisy Hay (“Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry’s Greatest Generation”)

Book Notes – Matthew Quick (“Sorta Like a Rock Star”)

May 5, 2010

Book Notes – Aaron Michael Morales (“Drowning Tucson”)

May 4, 2010

Book Notes – Ann Hood (“The Red Thread”)

April 30, 2010

Book Notes – Bob Fingerman (“From the Ashes”)

April 29, 2010

Book Notes – Kevin Sampsell (“A Common Pornography”)

Book Notes – Sean Manning (“Top of the Order: 25 Writers Pick Their Favorite Baseball Player of All Time”)

April 28, 2010

Book Notes – Travis Nichols (“Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder”)

April 23, 2010

Book Notes – K.M. Soehnlein (“Robin and Ruby”)

Book Notes – Damion Searls (“What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going”)

April 22, 2010

Book Notes – Monika Fagerholm (“The American Girl”)

Book Notes – J.C. Hallman (“The Hospital for Bad Poets”)

April 21, 2010

Book Notes – Peter Bagge (“Other Lives”)

April 20, 2010

Book Notes – Katherine Shonk (“Happy Now?”)

April 16, 2010

Book Notes – Marisa Silver (“Alone With You”)

Book Notes – Austin Kleon (“Newspaper Blackout”)

April 15, 2010

Book Notes – Leslie Jamison (“The Gin Closet”)

Book Notes – Chris Killen (“The Bird Room”)

April 13, 2010

Book Notes – Steve Almond (“Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life”)

April 9, 2010

Book Notes – Jassy Mackenzie (“Random Violence”)

April 8, 2010

Book Notes – Jennifer Gilmore (“Something Red”)

Book Notes – Randi Davenport (“The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes”)

April 7, 2010

Book Notes – Elise Blackwell (“An Unfinished Score”)

April 6, 2010

Book Notes – Deanna Fei (“A Thread of Sky”)

April 2, 2010

Book Notes – Tony DuShane (“Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk”)

Book Notes – Elisa Gabbert (“The French Exit”)

April 1, 2010

Book Notes – Ander Monson (“Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir”)

Book Notes – Scott Bradfield (“The People Who Watched Her Pass By”)

March 31, 2010

Book Notes – Brian Joseph Davis (“Ronald Reagan, My Father”)

March 30, 2010

Book Notes – Dawn Raffel (“Further Adventures in the Restless Universe”)

March 25, 2010

Book Notes – Andrea Scrima (“A Lesser Day”)

March 24, 2010

Book Notes – Steven Church (“The Day After The Day After: My Atomic Angst”)

March 23, 2010

Book Notes – Brad Watson (“Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives”)

March 19, 2010

Book Notes – Victor Lodato (“Mathilda Savitch”)

Book Notes – Jeffrey Rotter (“The Unknown Knowns”)

March 18, 2010

Book Notes – Sam Lipsyte (“The Ask”)

Book Notes – Peter Bognanni (“The House of Tomorrow”)

March 16, 2010

Book Notes – John Jodzio (“If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home”)

March 12, 2010

Book Notes – Dara Horn (“All Other Nights”)

Book Notes – Henry Baum (“The American Book of the Dead”)

March 11, 2010

Book Notes – Ken Kalfus (“Thirst”)

Book Notes – Richard Milward (“Ten Storey Love Song”)

March 10, 2010

Book Notes – Various Authors (“Phantom”)

March 9, 2010

Book Notes – James Hynes (“Next”)

March 5, 2010

Book Notes – Elif Batuman (“The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them”)

Book Notes – Andrew Zornoza (“Where I Stay”)

March 4, 2010

Book Notes – Lorraine Adams (“The Room and the Chair”)

Book Notes – Julie Klausner (“I Don’t Care About Your Band”)

March 3, 2010

Book Notes – Peter Birkenhead (“Gonville”)

March 2, 2010

Book Notes – Gina Welch (“In the Land of Believers”)

February 26, 2010

Book Notes – Jon Fink (“A Storm in the Blood”)

Book Notes – Stuart Neville (“The Ghosts of Belfast”)

February 25, 2010

Book Notes – Amy Bloom (“Where the God of Love Hangs Out”)

Book Notes – Zachary German (“Eat When You Feel Sad”)

February 19, 2010

Book Notes – Jon Fink (“Further Adventures”)

February 18, 2010

Book Notes – Terry Castle (“The Professor and Other Writings”)

Book Notes – Jason Thompson (“King of RPGs”)

February 17, 2010

Book Notes – Brian Dillon (“The Hypochondriacs”)

February 16, 2010

Book Notes – Paul Tremblay (“No Sleep till Wonderland”)

February 12, 2010

Book Notes – Peter Straub (“A Dark Matter”)

February 11, 2010

Book Notes – Justin Taylor (“Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever”)

Book Notes – Andre Aciman (“Eight White Nights”)

February 10, 2010

Book Notes – Steven Amsterdam (“Things We Didn’t See Coming”)

February 5, 2010

Book Notes – Marisa Meltzer (“Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music”)

February 4, 2010

Book Notes – David Peace (“Occupied City”)

Book Notes – Helen Thorpe (“Just Like Us”)

January 29, 2010

Book Notes – Jason Bitner (“Cassette From My Ex”)

January 28, 2010

Book Notes – Heidi Durrow (“The Girl Who Fell from the Sky”)

January 22, 2010

Book Notes – Jason Starr (“The Chill”)

January 21, 2010

Book Notes – Kathleen Rooney (“For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs”)

January 20, 2010

Book Notes – Amy Greene (“Bloodroot”)

January 19, 2010

“On The Men We Meet, and What Their Music Means to Us” by Jami Attenberg

January 15, 2010

Book Notes – Chuck Thompson (“To Hellholes and Back”)

January 14, 2010

Book Notes – Mike Carey (“The Unwritten Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity”)

January 13, 2010

Book Notes – Zak Sally (“Like a Dog”)

January 8, 2010

Book Notes – Matt Baker (“Drag the Darkness Down”)

January 6, 2010

Book Notes – Laura Bynum (“Veracity”)

December 11, 2009

Book Notes – Geoffrey Becker (“Black Elvis”)

December 3, 2009

Book Notes – Lauren Grodstein (“A Friend of the Family”)

November 25, 2009

Book Notes – Geeta Dayal (“Brian Eno’s Another Green World”)

November 20, 2009

Book Notes – Blake Butler (“Scorch Atlas”)

Book Notes – Ben Shaberman (“The Vegan Monologues”)

November 19, 2009

Book Notes – Lydia Millet (“Love in Infant Monkeys”)

November 17, 2009

Book Notes – David Henry Sterry (“Hos, Hookers, Call Girls & Rent Boys”)

November 13, 2009

Book Notes – Hanan Al-Shaykh (“The Locust and the Bird: My Mother’s Story”)

November 12, 2009

Book Notes – Joshua Gaylord (“Hummingbirds”)

November 11, 2009

Book Notes – John Ortved (“The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History”)

Book Notes – M. Thomas Gammarino (“Big in Japan”)

November 6, 2009

Book Notes – Robert Lopez (“Kamby Bolongo Mean River”)

November 5, 2009

Book Notes – Ben Winters (“Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters”)

November 4, 2009

Book Notes – Jeff VanderMeer (“Finch”)

October 30, 2009

Book Notes – Amy Stewart (“Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities”)

October 29, 2009

Book Notes – Richard Rushfield (“Don’t Follow Me, I’m Lost”)

October 28, 2009

Book Notes – Sophie Hannah (“The Wrong Mother”)

October 23, 2009

Book Notes – D.R. Haney (“Banned for Life”)

October 22, 2009

Book Notes – G. Willow Wilson (“Air Vol. 2: Flying Machine”)

October 21, 2009

Book Notes – Jason Quinn Malott (“The Evolution of Shadows”)

Book Notes – Daniel Nester (“How to Be Inappropriate”)

October 16, 2009

Book Notes – Emma Straub (“Fly-over State”)

Book Notes – Laura van den Berg (“What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us”)

October 15, 2009

Book Notes – Michelle Wildgen (“But Not for Long”)

October 14, 2009

Book Notes – Bill Willingham (“Peter & Max: A Fables Novel”)

October 9, 2009

Book Notes – Bill Cotter (“Fever Chart”)

Book Notes – Colin Dickey (“Cranioklepty”)

October 8, 2009

Book Notes – Sara Zarr (“Once Was Lost”)

Book Notes – Marc Estrin (“The Good Doctor Guillotin”)

October 7, 2009

Book Notes – Libba Bray (“Going Bovine”)

October 1, 2009

Book Notes – Curtis White (“The Barbaric Heart”)

September 30, 2009

Book Notes – Greg Olear (“Totally Killer”)

September 25, 2009

Book Notes – Stephanie Kuehnert (“Ballads of Suburbia”)

September 24, 2009

Book Notes – Tao Lin (“Shoplifting from American Apparel”)

September 23, 2009

Book Notes – Jill McCorkle (“Going Away Shoes”)

September 18, 2009

Book Notes – Laird Hunt (“Ray of the Star”)

September 16, 2009

Book Notes – James P. Othmer (“Adland”)

September 11, 2009

Book Notes – John Kerschbaum (“Petey & Pussy”)

September 10, 2009

Book Notes – Michelle Huneven (“Blame”)

September 9, 2009

Book Notes – David Small (“Stitches”)

September 4, 2009

Book Notes – Claire Zulkey (“An Off Year”)

September 3, 2009

Book Notes – Marie Mutsuki Mockett (“Picking Bones from Ash”)

September 2, 2009

Book Notes – Matthew Specktor (“That Summertime Sound”)

September 1, 2009

Book Notes – Stephen Elliott (“The Adderall Diaries”)

August 28, 2009

Book Notes – Frank Portman (“Andromeda Klein”)

Book Notes – Jason Sheehan (“Cooking Dirty”)

August 27, 2009

Book Notes – Daniel Kraus (“The Monster Variations”)

August 26, 2009

Book Notes – Brian Evenson (“Fugue State”)

August 21, 2009

Book Notes – James Lasdun (“It’s Beginning to Hurt”)

August 20, 2009

Book Notes – Lev Grossman (“The Magicians”)

Book Notes – Frank Anthony Polito (“Drama Queers!”)

August 19, 2009

Book Notes – Dave Reidy (“Captive Audience”)

August 14, 2009

Book Notes – Victor LaValle (“Big Machine”)

Book Notes – Clay Hayes (“Gig Posters Volume 1”)

August 13, 2009

Book Notes – Jonathan Tropper (“This Is Where I Leave You”)

August 12, 2009

Book Notes – Pasha Malla (“The Withdrawal Method”)

August 7, 2009

Book Notes – Various Authors (“Love Is a Four-Letter Word”)

August 6, 2009

Book Notes – Jessica Shattuck (“Perfect Life”)

August 5, 2009

Book Notes – Colin Cotterill (“The Merry Misogynist”)

July 31, 2009

Book Notes – Lydia Peelle (“Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing”)

July 30, 2009

Book Notes – Robin Romm (“The Mother Garden”)

July 29, 2009

Book Notes – Peter Murphy (“John the Revelator”)

July 24, 2009

Book Notes – Alex Burrett (“My Goat Ate Its Own Legs”)

July 23, 2009

Book Notes – Ian MacKenzie (“City of Strangers”)

July 22, 2009

Book Notes – Margot Livesey (“The House on Fortune Street”)

July 21, 2009

Book Notes – Various Authors (“Best of the Web 2009”)

July 17, 2009

Book Notes – Gary Indiana (“The Shanghai Gesture”)

July 16, 2009

Book Notes – Stephanie Klein (“Moose”)

July 15, 2009

Book Notes – Joan Silber (“The Size of the World”)

July 10, 2009

Book Notes – Kaya Oakes (“Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture”)

July 9, 2009

Book Notes – Jeff Lemire (“The Nobody”)

July 8, 2009

Book Notes – Alyson Noel (“Blue Moon”)

July 3, 2009

Book Notes – Peter Terzian (“Heavy Rotation”)

July 2, 2009

Book Notes – Jessica West (“What Would Keith Richards Do?”)

July 1, 2009

Book Notes – Jessica Hopper (“The Girls’ Guide to Rocking”)

June 26, 2009

Book Notes – Jim Krusoe (“Erased”)

June 25, 2009

Book Notes – Ron Currie, Jr. (“Everything Matters!”)

June 24, 2009

Book Notes – Zachary Mexico (“China Underground”)

June 19, 2009

Book Notes – Tania James (“Atlas of Unknowns”)

June 18, 2009

Book Notes – Justin Gage (“Memphis & the Delta Blues Trail”)

June 17, 2009

Book Notes – Stuart Berman (“This Book is Broken: A Broken Social Scene Story”)

June 12, 2009

Book Notes – Jean Thompson (“Do Not Deny Me”)

Book Notes – Doug Dorst (“Alive in Necropolis”)

June 11, 2009

Book Notes – James Hannaham (“God Says No”)

Book Notes – Paul Hornschemeier (“Mother, Come Home”)

June 10, 2009

Book Notes – Daniel Waters (“Generation Dead”)

June 5, 2009

Book Notes – Amelia Gray (“AM/PM”)

June 4, 2009

Book Notes – Josh Weil (“The New Valley”)

June 3, 2009

Book Notes – Shawna Yang Ryan (“Water Ghosts”)

Book Notes – Joshua Mohr (“Some Things That Meant the World to Me”)

June 2, 2009

Book Notes – Emily St. John Mandel (“Last Night in Montreal”)

May 29, 2009

Book Notes – Matthew Vollmer (“Future Missionaries of America”)

May 28, 2009

Book Notes – Louis Maistros (“The Sound of Building Coffins)

Book Notes – William Walsh (“Questionstruck”)

May 27, 2009

Book Notes – Danzy Senna (“Where Did You Sleep Last Night?”)

Book Notes – Norah Labiner (“German for Travelers”)

Book Notes – C.M. Mayo (“The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire”)

May 22, 2009

Book Notes – Sung J. Woo (“Everything Asian”)

Book Notes – Carrie Vaughn (“Kitty Raises Hell”)

May 21, 2009

Book Notes – Cheryl Wagner (“Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around”)

Book Notes – Sean Dixon (“The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal”)

May 20, 2009

Book Notes – Kate Maloy (“Every Last Cuckoo”)

Book Notes – Peter Selgin (“Life Goes to the Movies”)

May 19, 2009

Book Notes – Michelle Richmond (“No One You Know”)

May 15, 2009

Book Notes – Paul Tremblay (“The Little Sleep”)

Book Notes – Timmy Waldron (“World Takes”)

May 14, 2009

Book Notes – Mark Sarvas (“Harry, Revised”)

May 13, 2009

Book Notes – Dean Wareham (“Black Postcards”)

Book Notes – Joe Meno (“The Great Perhaps”)

May 12, 2009

Book Notes – Elizabeth Lowry (“The Bellini Madonna”)

May 8, 2009

Book Notes – Andy Raskin (“The Ramen King and I”)

Book Notes – Lori Culwell (“Hollywood Car Wash”)

May 7, 2009

Book Notes – Meg Waite Clayton (“The Wednesday Sisters”)

May 6, 2009

Book Notes – Rick Collignon (“Madewell Brown”)

May 5, 2009

Book Notes – Ayelet Waldman (“Bad Mother”)

May 1, 2009

Book Notes – Blake Nelson (“Destroy All Cars”)

April 30, 2009

Book Notes – Shilpa Agarwal (“Haunting Bombay”)

April 29, 2009

Book Notes – Ariel Schrag (“Likewise”)

April 24, 2009

Book Notes – Mei-Ling Hopgood (“Lucky Girl”)

April 23, 2009

Book Notes – Cristina Henriquez (“The World in Half”)

April 22, 2009

Book Notes – Laila Lalami (“Secret Son”)

April 21, 2009

Book Notes – Steve Amick (“Nothing But a Smile”)

April 17, 2009

Book Notes – C. E. Morgan (“All the Living”)

April 16, 2009

Book Notes – Jeffrey Brown (“Funny Misshapen Body”)

Book Notes – Garry Disher (“Blood Moon”)

April 15, 2009

Book Notes – Nicole Helget (“The Turtle Catcher”)

April 10, 2009

Book Notes – Robert Goolrick (“A Reliable Wife”)

April 9, 2009

Book Notes – James Morrow (“Shambling Towards Hiroshima”)

April 8, 2009

Book Notes – S.G. Browne (“Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament”)

April 7, 2009

Book Notes – Arthur Phillips (“The Song Is You”)

April 3, 2009

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March 20, 2009

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March 3, 2009

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February 27, 2009

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February 26, 2009

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February 25, 2009

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February 24, 2009

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February 20, 2009

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February 19, 2009

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February 13, 2009

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February 12, 2009

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February 11, 2009

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February 10, 2009

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February 6, 2009

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February 5, 2009

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January 23, 2009

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November 26, 2008

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November 25, 2008

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April 10, 2008

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March 28, 2008

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March 27, 2008

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March 19, 2008

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March 14, 2008

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March 12, 2008

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February 29, 2008

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February 15, 2008

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January 2, 2008

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December 21, 2007

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December 20, 2007

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December 19, 2007

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December 14, 2007

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December 11, 2007

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December 5, 2007

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November 30, 2007

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November 29, 2007

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November 14, 2007

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November 9, 2007

Book Notes – Dedra Johnson (“Sandrine’s Letter to Tomorrow”)

November 7, 2007

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October 31, 2007

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October 17, 2007

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October 11, 2007

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October 3, 2007

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September 27, 2007

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September 25, 2007

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September 14, 2007

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July 25, 2007

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June 27, 2007

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April 25, 2007

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December 21, 2006

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December 19, 2006

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December 12, 2006

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December 6, 2006

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November 30, 2006

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November 16, 2006

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November 15, 2006

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November 8, 2006

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November 7, 2006

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October 25, 2006

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October 19, 2006

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October 3, 2006

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September 27, 2006

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March 31, 2006

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March 8, 2006

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March 7, 2006

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February 23, 2006

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February 7, 2006

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January 31, 2006

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November 1, 2005

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October 11, 2005

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October 5, 2005

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October 4, 2005

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August 30, 2005

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August 9, 2005

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July 12, 2005

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July 7, 2005

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June 1, 2005

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May 25, 2005

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March 30, 2005

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